As we reach the peak of the summer heat, theGrio celebrates the legacy of Black summer retreats, beginning with Idlewild, Michigan. On Wednesday, July 20, ownership of a strip of Los Angeles’ ...

IDLEWILD, Mich. — The traffic along US 10 blows right by a dirt-road entrance. But a newly built brick marker proclaims, optimistically, “Welcome to Idlewild, a historic community.” This dirt road — ...

LAKE COUNTY -- Once known as "Michigan's Black Eden," the Idlewild Resort in Lake County's Idlewild has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The resort, a former haven for blacks ...

IDLEWILD, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff has donated $2,000 from returnable cans and bottles for improvement projects at Idlewild. It served as a major summer resort for African Americans in Michigan's ...

In 1912, prominent members of the Black community began vacationing in Idlewild, a thriving beach town in the forests of Northern Michigan. W.E.B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker and other intellectuals ...

Images from Michigan’s historic Idlewild resort are striking for their depictions of Black people vacationing and having a good time during a period in history where sociopolitical conditions made it ...

Deonna Green used to spend weekends in Idlewild, a popular resort community in Michigan for African Americans during segregation. When Green was in grade school, she and her parents and sisters used ...

IDLEWILD, Mich. -- Whenever John O. Meeks looks back on the glory years of America's "Black Eden" summertime resort, the first thing that comes to mind is a 1960s vision of the youthful Four Tops ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – In Idlewild, Gezelle Grier-Myers is following in the footsteps of Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. Jackie Wilson, Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway all entertained in the ...

Since the mid-1920s, Ann Hawkins has summered on an idyllic oasis in northwestern Michigan called Idlewild, once known by some as the Martha’s Vineyard of the Midwest, but for well-to-do black folk.

IDLEWILD – You'd never know this was once paradise. There's not much traffic on the crisscrossing dirt roads. The old shacks set back in the woods are mostly empty. There's little noise other than the ...

On Wednesday, July 20, ownership of a strip of Los Angeles’ Manhattan Beach—formerly known as “Bruce’s Beach”—was restored to the family of its original owners, Charles and Willa Bruce. In the early ...