After seeing the lunch and what was offered up the school recived some backlash and quickly appoalgised.

Hattie Beverly was hired to teach at Congress Elementary School, becoming the first Black Schoolteacher here in Grand Rapids.

In 1935, Rasberry moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan to play with Elster’s Colored Athletics, a local semi-professional baseball team, and by 1946, Rasberry purchased his first team, the Grand Rapids Black Sox.

A woman went viral on TikTok after telling a story about going to a East Grand Rapids school where they made her and classmates participate in 'Slave Day.'

A new, mobile Black History Museum is making its way to Kalamazoo. Find out when and where this unique showcase will be in town.

From the hair brush, ironing board, dough kneader and roller to the heating furnace and the folding bed, female African American inventors are often overlooked.

She came up with a solution for working-class folks living in single-room housing. The precursor to the Murphy bed, her folding cabinet bed became a phenomenon.

She went from the cotton fields of Louisiana to become the first self-made female millionaire of any race by creating the first Black haircare products.

Known as The Plant Doctor, George Washington Carver was able to discover 300 uses for the peanut and more than 100 uses for the sweet potato.

While remembering those African-Americans who paved the way, there are still so many people who have made history in the past century.