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Let's start with some things you may have missed late last week:The O'Bannon decision: Otherwise known as the case that could change college sports and…

Rosslyn Bliss leads the way across a boardwalk on a five-acre piece of land on the north side of Grand Rapids to a one-story light-brown building. This…

We don't do a lot of movie reviews at State of Opportunity. In fact, we've only ever done one.What makes the documentary Rich Hill worth watching is also…

The death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown and the resulting chaos in Ferguson, Missouri is an extreme example of the long tail of a racial power…

A little before 9 a.m. Monday, it’s time to clean up the morning work in the KinderCamp classroom at MLK Leadership Academy in Grand Rapids.The free,…

It’s not a new story:A young black man dies after an encounter with police. A community takes to the streets to demand answers. Their protest turns…

In the summer of 1994, my family hitched a U-Haul trailer to the back of my mom's Ford LTD station wagon and drove it to the other side of the country. We…

On the last lazy Sunday of summer, Musa lies down on the living room floor to play with his cat Romeo. Later today there will be shopping for school…

The release of new economic data is about as exciting as spam email.The New York Times Upshot blog makes the case that the newest set of data is something…

There are more than 13,000 youth in foster care in Michigan at any given time. There's no way we could possibly interview anywhere close to that number,…