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Leaders of the Urban League of West Michigan announced Wednesday they'll open a new youth development center in Grand Rapids

Shelley Irwin previews next week’s West Michigan Student Showcase, BAMF and Corewell Health are working on a new radiation therapy, a push to bring broadband internet to more Ottawa County residents, and more.

Civil Rights team will facilitate local forums building coalitions and partnerships with communities together combating unlawful acts of hate.

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights unveiled its new PSA campaign against hate crimes and bias incidents Wednesday.

A bill package to rework Michigan’s current hate crime law and create a new crime of “institutional desecration” made it out of the state House last month with limited bipartisan support.

A Lansing state representative has introduced a bill that would further protect the rights of Michiganders experiencing homelessness

Juneteenth hearkens the arrival on June 19, 1865, of Union troops in Galveston, Texas, to announce the Civil War was over and slaves in the former Confederacy were freed under the Emancipation Proclamation

"The Jackson House" where Martin Luther King Jr. planned the Alabama marches will be moving to the Henry Ford Museum’s Greenfield Village in Dearborn

A bill to expand Michigan’s civil rights law to include LGBTQ protections has been moved into a position to be voted on vote tomorrow by the state Senate.

A first hearing on an LGBTQ civil rights bill was held Thursday before a state Senate committee