The two-mile tour now has 11 stops that highlight influential people and moments in Grand Rapids' history, from visits during ...

Walter Coe moved to Grand Rapids in 1916 from Nashville and became the city's first Black police officer in 1922.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - West Michigan isn’t immune to a statewide teacher shortage that’s disproportionately affecting students in high-poverty and majority-Black school districts, according to a ...

Grand Rapids Public Library is hosting Black History Month programming for kids, teens and adults, including a live ...

(WNDU) - Could today’s keynote speaker be tomorrow’s first Black governor in ... one’s criminal record in Michigan but makes it automatic. “Only 7% of people who are eligible for ...

The founding members — seniors Jayda Burton, IMara Smith Skyers, Elijah Jones, Miklet Mesay, Jaydon Burton and Anna Wetzel — ...

It wasn’t that easy,” said Christine Byron, a historian of Michigan ... history, people don’t know, and they should know,” Byron said, sitting on the couch in her East Grand Rapids home.

Black History Month grew out of an effort to honor the most important people in the history of Black emancipation in the United States, according to the ASALH. Black History Month is a time for ...

When people say Black candidates can’t raise money or win elections, I tell them to check the numbers.” As the youngest justice ever appointed to Michigan’s highest court at 34, Bolden ...