‘It’s like a reunion.’ Hundreds gather for Ann Arbor’s 28th African American festival

ANN ARBOR, MI — Khalil Peaks has been with Ann Arbor’s African American Festival since the beginning.

“When I started my business back in the ’70s, and when this festival started, I enjoyed coming up here because I could reminisce about when I was going to school,” Peaks said.

In the 1960s, when Peaks studied at the University of Michigan, he would get his hair cut at a barbershop at Fourth Avenue and Ann Street, where he said the Black community hung out…

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