To create a stunning new mural on Grandville Avenue, high school students spent months exploring race, identity and heritage. After nearly a year of doing everything from holding public forums to putting on skits about racism in Grand Rapids, the teenagers are celebrating their newly-finished piece of public art that is all about uplifting and empowering the area's Latino community.
A lot more people are making the pilgrimage to Detroit this fall to attend MECCA, a black-centric celebration of geekdom and creativity.
James Johnson-Piett is the principal and CEO of New York-based Urbane Development, a community development venture that utilizes a community's greatest resource to build dynamic neighborhoods in underserved areas: the community itself.
Several more large-scale construction projects are pegged on the UofM campus development map, with a new music center planned on Central Avenue and two new sports practice facilities going up on the school’s Park Avenue campus to the south.
Kalid J. Ibrahim is finally getting the chance to renovate the historic Neighborhood Grocery at 1362 South Main Street -- after owning and operating the store for the past decade, Ibrahim was awarded an EDGE loan earlier this month.
The Memphis Bus Riders Union and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 713 are launching a new campaign with a petition to restore the 31 Crosstown, a historic bus route eliminated by Memphis Area Transit Authority in 2013.
Freewheel, a slow ride bicycle program, officially launched in Memphis last week with a ride through the Medical District on September 7.
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