The five-county Grand Rapids-Wyoming metro area had the worst Black homeownership rate —30.1% — among the 50 biggest U.S. metros in 2023, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Many of my friends and acquaintances have either been ill with the flu, their kids have or the whole ...

The Grand Rapids housing program is believed to be the first of its kind in Michigan, and only one of a few across the nation ...

Andrea Wallace knows what it’s like to be the only Black woman in the room. As the CEO of Opnr, an online platform designed to connect concert promoters with independent musicians, she’s navigated the ...

Grand Rapids came in second as the worst city for Black people economically ... mobile bartending services throughout West Michigan. Justice Porter started it a year ago, shortly after graduating ...

“Our task is to bring alive the people, places and events in the Third Ward district of Grand Rapids and tell those stories in the form of a tour,” Bayard said. Black History Month: New tour ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A celebration of Black history is happening in Grand ... to network,” CEO Fridah Kanini said. “People can connect to business experts.” An even bigger ...

Black and Brown youth ages 3 to 15 in Chicago, and people of numerous identities ages 6 to 85 in Grand Rapids. Do you feel you keep getting in your own way to being happier? Do you think that you ...

The state is searching for remaining sites from the Negro Motorist Green Book to preserve the history from segregation-era travel.

On International Women's Day, mothers and daughters from across West Michigan poured into Rosa Parks Circle, celebrating past ...