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PuLSE Editor-in-Chief Bankole Thompson Joins CNN Panel to Discuss Historic Pick of Kamala Harris As VP Candidate
Bankole Thompson, the Executive Dean and Editor-in-Chief of The PuLSE Institute, and a twice-a-week opinion columnist at The Detroit News, was invited by CNN last Wednesday
PuLSE Institute Announces Gandhi Award for Global Justice
A new national award launched by The PuLSE Institute (Institute for Public Leadership and Social Equity), Detroit’s anti-poverty think tank, will allow the Institution every year starting
In His Own Words: Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 2019 PuLSE Institute Column He Wrote About Presidential Election
Editor’s Note: The Rev Jesse Jackson Sr., founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition died on Tuesday after a long illness. The nation’s premier civil rights
PuLSE 2026 Women’s Power Breakfast Forum Speakers: Diane Antishin, SVP of Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer at DTE Energy, and Tiffany Albert, SVP of Community Relations and President of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
Diane Antishin, the senior vice president of human resources and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at DTE Energy and Tiffany Albert, the senior vice
Mark Rosenbaum, Powerhouse Civil Rights Lawyer to Speak at Inaugural Bankole Thompson First Amendment and Social Change Lecture Series Feb. 27
Mark Rosenbaum, a Harvard-educated lawyer, former ACLU chief counsel in Southern California, and one of the nation’s most influential civil rights lawyers who previously worked
Banking And Black: A Legitimate Exercise of a Free Democracy
Wealth in Black hands Is Not fraud; It Is Freedom: A Black Wealth, Black History Series By Attorney Tina M. Patterson, Esq President, The PuLSE
PuLSE: Ex-NAACP Leader Jim Vincent to Deliver Inaugural Keynote for Bankole Thompson First Amendment and Social Change Lecture Series
Jim Vincent, Primary Advocate of Rhode Island’s First Black Supreme Court Justice, Represents the Finest Tradition of the Civil Rights Movement Detroit’s national and independent anti-poverty
MLK Keynote Speaker: One of Detroit’s Largest Senior Residence Communities Taps Preeminent Journalist, Economic Justice Champion Bankole Thompson for MLK Celebration Jan. 15
River Towers Senior Apartments, one of the largest senior communities in the City of Detroit that is active in civic engagements, and which houses 430
2026 Inspiration: Forbes Review of Bankole Thompson’s Fiery Conscience Book, A Primer on Bold Leadership
Forbes, the authoritative business magazine on finance, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship wrote a review of Fiery Conscience, a didactic book that documents the more than
CONSECUTIVE VOTES: Off-Ramp for Dems, GOP and Trump to End Shutdown
By Robert Weiner, Ingrid Lang, and Hallvard Misje Both Democrats and Republicans in both the House and the Senate are stuck — blocked — from
Ex-White House Spokesman: The Bankole Thompson Doctrine for CEOs Underscores New Senate Housing Bill
By Robert Weiner and Hallvard Misje Across the United States, inequality has become the defining fault line of the economy. While corporate profits and stock
Memo to America’s CEOs: The Bankole Thompson Doctrine
The central quest for economic justice in the grand struggle against poverty has largely rested on the shoulders of those who are at the bottom
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan CEO Tricia Keith: ‘Business Leaders Must be Mindful of Poverty’
Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of the introductory remarks that Tricia Keith, the President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
PuLSE President Patterson: ‘Embrace Global Diversity as a Means of Economic Justice’
Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of the speech that Attorney Tina M. Patterson, the President and Director of Research of The PuLSE Institute
At Lakin Institute Dinner, Eminent Journalist and Cultural Critic Bankole Thompson Tells Black College Presidents, Provosts, Deans to Show Courage, Stand up for Racial Justice
Black college presidents, provosts, deans and vice presidents as well as other administrators in higher education have an obligation to not only demonstrate excellence, but
At Major Poverty Conference, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan President and CEO Tricia Keith, to Introduce Plenary Session to Kick Off PuLSE 2025
Tricia Keith, the President and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, the state’s largest health insurer, will speak at the Annual Economic Justice
