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Posts from the ‘Grand Rapids People’s History Project’ Category

0February 17, 2026William Glenn: Civil Rights Advocate in Grand Rapids, Communist Party member and Internationalist

1February 16, 2026Doug DeVos and revisionist history of Grand Rapids since 1976: How the Capitalist Class always tries to control the narrative

0February 8, 2026GR history through the lens of those in power vs a people’s history of GR

1January 11, 2026GR history through the lens of those in power vs a people’s history of GR

3January 4, 2026New Year, same damn lies about the history of Grand Rapids

0December 28, 2025GRIID end of the year in review: Part IV – Documenting the radical history of Grand Rapids

1December 4, 2025Minister, socialist and Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 1965

2November 15, 2025Community Historians workshop focuses on the Grand Rapids Public Schools in the 1980s

0November 6, 2025Epilogue for my forthcoming book, Reversing the Missionary Position: Learning Solidarity on Mayan Time

1November 4, 2025The War Criminal Dick Cheney is dead and people gave him hell when he visited Grand Rapids while he was Vice President