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Through candid dialogue between academics and artists, a new video series examines the Underground Railroad’s history and its reverberating impact.
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Efforts to expand state hate crime law to include more protected classes, a national video series between academics and artists/creatives discussing Black operatives along the underground railroad, Ann Arbor flooding, and the afterlives of solar panels.
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In the 1840s, a black family fleeing slavery found refuge in Marshall, Michigan. Only a few years later, after settling into their new home, relatives of…
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All Thornton and his wife Lucie Blackburn wanted was freedom when they came to Detroit in 1831. The African-American couple came to what was then still…
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. But the end of slavery in the United States wasn’t official until the 13th Amendment to…
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When you think of the Underground Railroad, one name you may not recognize is Laura Smith Haviland. She helped many slaves escape from the South to…