Thanks to a former teacher in Detroit, many will be reminded that Idlewild is more than just a movie starring the rap group Outkast. When inspiration struck for her latest outdoor project, Maria ...

Younger generations may not recall Idlewild in its heyday, nor the Hotel Casa Blanca for that matter. The town earned the name ‘Black Eden,’ serving as a safe haven for Black Americans during ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Decades ago, a majority Black resort community in West Michigan that was referred to as “Black Eden” was in its heyday. Now, it’s fallen into disrepair. A $25,000 grant from Western ...

Lydia Hicks, originally of New York state, first learned about Idlewild in 2016. She was researching historically black resort towns for a school project. “I was working on a project about black ...

A pre-Civil War plantation house in Fredericksburg that once served as Gen. Robert E. Lee's headquarters burned early yesterday, leaving only the four red brick walls of the Gothic Revival-style ...

Hawthorne Gallery and Idlewild House will have two free events this week to celebrate the opening of a fall exhibition of photography by Dede Reed and encaustic paintings by Alix Hitchcock: ...

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 ...