GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Encouraging diversity and racial equity were major themes at Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss’ second State of the City address Thursday evening.
In an about 45-minute speech at the city’s newest downtown concert venue, 20 Monroe Live, the mayor unveiled her “vision of a path forward.”
Bliss said the city still has much work to do to make sure everyone from minority entrepreneurs to those seeking jobs and policy influence at City Hall are successful.
“We are one community and we rise and we fall together,” she told the crowd. “Without racial equity, we cannot be prosperous.”
One initiative involves the creation of the Grand Rapids Equity Initiative, which will help groups already working on the issue.
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