PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES In 2013, historian Jon Meacham writing for the cover of Time magazine, called Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the architect of
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
Detroit’s White CEOs Must Offer Strong Action, Not Sweet Words
By Bankole Thompson On the surface, the public appearance of some major Detroit CEOs who came out on Wednesday to condemn racism in the wake
George Floyd’s Death Matters In The United Kingdom
By Joan Blaney Like millions of people around the world, I watched in horror as yet again, the life of another unresisting, unarmed black man
Samuel Bagenstos: ‘Don’t Wait for Judges to Convict Brutal Cops’
Editor’s Note: Samuel Bagenstos is a senior fellow at The PuLSE Institute, where he focuses on civil rights, health and housing law. He is currently the
PuLSE Institute Editor-In-Chief Bankole Thompson Talks Police Brutality In Leading Belgium Newspaper
Bankole Thompson, the editor-in-chief of The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent anti-poverty think tank, was featured today in De Standaard, the leading Dutch-language newspaper in Brussels, Belgium, the
Black Life No Bargaining Chip In Demanding Police Accountability
Tina M. Patterson, a Detroit native and attorney is the president and director of research at The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent and non-partisan anti-poverty think
Sam Riddle: The Motor City Is Still Burning In Poverty
Editor’s Note: Sam Riddle is an honorably discharged Vietnam era veteran and a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Riddle has over 45
PuLSE Institute Issues National Statement on Death of George Floyd, Nationwide Protests
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked a nationwide demonstration against police brutality and overbearing law enforcement. While the authorities in Minneapolis have
Rwanda: How First African Nation to Impose COVID-19 Lockdown is Fighting Poverty
PULSE GLOBAL OUTLOOK Editor’s Note: Gerard Mporananayo is the founder and chairman of the Employment and Youth Empowerment Solution (EYES RWANDA) in Rwanda, an effort that grew out
A Detroit Educator’s COVID-19 Diary: Supporting Poor Kids and Teaching in Uncertainty
Editor’s Note: Dorothea Williams-Arnold is a teacher at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. A 14-year veteran of public education, she explains in this column
U-M Law Prof, Former Obama Top DOJ Civil Rights Official Bagenstos Joins PuLSE Institute
Samuel Bagenstos, the Frank G. Millard Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and a former principal deputy assistant attorney general for
Gov. Whitmer’s Reluctance to Act Threatens Fate of Right to Literacy for Black Children
Editor’s Note: The opinion columns and analysis on the historic Detroit kids’ right to literacy case that we publish are part of The Douglass Project,
Detroit’s Right to Literacy Attorney Rosenbaum: How PuLSE Institute Shaped Settlement Debate in Landmark Ruling
Editor’s Note: Mark Rosenbaum is the director of the Opportunity Under Law project at Public Counsel, which calls itself the nation’s largest pro bono law
Wrongfully Imprisoned For 34 Years: Darrell Siggers Explains Why Prisons and COVID-19 Are Dangerous Combination
Editor’s Note: Detroiter Darrell Siggers went to prison when he was 20 for the 1984 murder of James Montgomery. He spent 34 years in prison
Prominent Black Scholar, Journalist Herb Boyd: Gov. Whitmer MIA on Children Literacy
Editor’s Note: Herb Boyd is a nationally renowned journalist, activist, teacher and the author/editor of twenty-three books including his latest “Black Detroit: A People’s History