Bringing Justice Home

Repairing the damage in our small cities

Our bath remodel in progress. Photo by author.

Our family lives in an old fixer-upper in a small rust belt town, a town that’s been languishing ever since the industrial plants and mills started closing in the 1960s. We live in a historically integrated neighborhood, where some families have lived for generations. Affluent suburban homes and schools encircle our small city, population 13,663, like a donut, leaving a hole — our…