Black Michiganders have been shaping our state since day one. The impact of Black history extends into every aspect of culture: art, music, science, medicine, sports, and more.
Here, you can find some of the stories of African-Americans that may have been left out of your history book.
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Grand Rapids isn't a big-league baseball town, but a living part of baseball history calls it home. Minnie Forbes is the last surviving owner of a Negro… -
For a long time, the work of African American artists didn't get much recognition in the world of fine art. That hasn't stopped art lovers from building… -
For architects, a groundbreaking ceremony is the beginning of a vision realized. But architect Donald White needed to break new ground in a much different… -
Tour groups in Grand Rapids are braving the cold weather to learn about the city’s black history.This tour focuses on civil rights leaders like Rosa… -
We all have a version of ourselves that lives in our head. Your favorite self, your strongest self, the self this world? for whatever reason? doesn't want… -
The fine art world has not always been friendly to African American artists. But that’s starting to change, and black artists are now more visible than… -
How contemporary African-American artists use portraiture to portray, celebrate the black experienceWhen you walk into the African American art wing of the Detroit Institute of Arts, you see a large portrait of a woman on a couch. The portrait is covered… -
America’s Great Migration between World War I and II brought millions of Southerners, both black and white, to places like Michigan to escape the economic… -
Stateside: Coronavirus affect on MI economy; Line 5 under St. Clair River; MI’s first black settlersToday on Stateside, the coronavirus outbreak in China is beginning to have an effect on Michigan manufacturers. We hear from an executive at a west… -
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office in Detroit bears the name of Elijah McCoy, a pioneering African-American inventor. McCoy was born in the mid-1840s,…
