Sonya Bernard Hollins

Sonya Bernard-Hollins once produced a coloring book about prominent Black graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools, among them former Yankees shortstop Derek…

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…