Living in the Shadow of Statistics in Rust Belt Ohio [bloomberg.com]

Ingrid Cockhren 2/14/2312:00 PM

By Tara L. Conley, Photo: Tara L. Conley, Bloomberg City Lab, February 10, 2023

Who is listening to Black women—our bodies and our families?

This question brought me back home. I recently moved back to Ohio, a place characterized by Toni Morrison as neither plantation nor ghetto. I’m a comebacker trying to manage work-life balance in a post-2020 society. Ohio is not the place with cities that show up at the top of “most livable” lists; in fact, quite the opposite, particularly for Black women. And yet, it’s worth examining why we would continue to call it home.

I know four Black women from different generations with different stories and life trajectories, living in the same region that breeds apathy and disappointment, who lovingly call Elyria, Ohio, home.

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