LANSING, Mich. – Kyra Harris Bolden will be the first to tell you that law wasn’t even on her radar when she grew up in Southfield. She aspired to become a psychologist, but while in college at Grand Valley State University, both a conversation with two young girls and a revelation about the brutal lynching of her grant grandfather changed the path of her life forever.
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