Merze Tate

Twenty local black women professionals are pooling their money to aid Greater Kalamazoo-area nonprofits that offer cultural, educational or human-service…

Sonya Bernard Hollins says she couldn’t shake the name Merze Tate, and has been following it ever since. As a reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette, Bernard…

While many African Americans in the 1920s and 30s were fighting for basic rights, Western Michigan University alum Merze Tate was traveling the world and…