Coverage of programs that deal with gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability, and socioeconomic status; are focused on fair access to resources and opportunities; and, those that create environments where people feel welcome, respected, and fully accepted.
Since 2016, the Native American Heritage Fund has been providing information and funding to promote positive relationships between public and private K-12 schools, colleges, universities, local units of government, and Michigan’s federally recognized Native American Tribes. This year $482,000 in grants were awarded to foster those relationships.
People can't move from homelessness to housed if there is not enough affordable housing in a community. Pathway Home is one new way that shortage is being addressed in Kalamazoo.
Neighbors in Washington Heights have high expectations for the impact of an improvement to Claude Evans park known as a splash pad. So now they are raising funds for the project.
The more we listen to each other, the better we can adjust or respond to each other and help to improve our collective conditions. Jeff Cotton offers this thought and more regarding our current situation.
Black residents have borne a disproportionate share of Michigan's COVID-19 cases and deaths, but in recent weeks those disheartening numbers have begun to turn around.
The Native American Heritage Fund is becoming a model that the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi would like to see being used to promote positive relationships for more Native American Tribes.
"Kalamazoo will be a better city tonight than we were yesterday." Those supporting changes to the city's housing ordinance that make t is easier to obtain housing for those who previously have been shut out of the housing market by a variety of barriers saw the adoption as a new day for the city.
When there is a problem, but the focus of the problem becomes racism, it can get in the way of addressing the problem, suggests Battle Creek Unlimited Vice President Shabaka Gibson.
Kalamazoo county's population is 11 percent Black while 60 percent of those in housing crisis are Black. Clearly, discrimination deeply factors into the housing inequities seen locally. Those barriers are about to be addressed.
City officials speak to the gun violence occurring in Kalamazoo.
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