Green Brain Comics has enrolled in the MI Local Biz program, a crowdfunding-and-matching grant initiative designed by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to help businesses like theirs survive the economic fallout from coronavirus. We asked them about their crowdfunding efforts and life during COVID-19.

Bringing public transit to Rochester area will greatly benefit the community in terms of access, the environment, and personal economic payoff, activists say.

“We’re all in recovery mode. Particularly with the coronavirus, it’s placed a magnifying glass on the disparities that we’re seeing in our cities in particular. Now more than ever, particularly in light of the tragedy of George Floyd and so many others and specifically Black Lives Matter. [It’s an] inflection point in society.”

Pastor Edward Pruett has been examining and exposing systemic racism and injustice within his city in hopes of creating concrete change.

The Suit Depot in Oak Park has purchased 2,500 reusable face masks to be distributed among Michigan small businesses and their employees – for free. Owner Marty Babayov hopes to start a movement of small business solidarity.