Across Michigan, Black students embody brilliance, resilience, and untapped potential. Yet, from early literacy struggles to the school-to-prison pipeline, public education systems too often fall short in meeting their needs. A shift is underway, though, led by institutions, by communities, by scholars, and by organizers determined to rewrite the future.
This summer, Fox News highlighted one such effort: a financial literacy program housed within Commission REI , a dynamic initiative that’s part of a much broader and deeper undertaking called the MI Black Student Project’s Pipeline 2 Prosperity Initiative (MiBSP). Launched by educators, parents, students, and grassroots advocates, MiBSP is driven by the unified mission of eliminating barriers to academic success and by building the fo