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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A group of community leaders is working to make reading “cool” for local students. Men of Color Read, an organization founded by Jon Covington, brings volunteers into elementary ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Jon Covington said he discovered Hackley Library in Muskegon as a young child and it opened up his world to possibility. “No matter what was going on around me, I went to the ...