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
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
Wayne County CEO Evans: Gov. Whitmer Should Not Fight What is Right
Editor’s Note: Wayne County Executive Warren Evans was elected in 2014 as the fourth CEO of Michigan’s largest county which is home to 34 cities
Leading Detroit CEO Pasky to Gov. Whitmer: Stand By Your Word and Support Detroit Kids’ Right to Literacy
Editor’s Note: Cynthia J. Pasky is the president and CEO of Strategic Staffing Solutions, an international IT staffing company headquartered in Detroit. One of the
Top Civil Rights Attorney: Gov. Whitmer Plays Hide-and-Seek with Detroit Kids Right to Literacy
Editor’s Note: Godfrey Dillard is a renowned civil rights lawyer who served as the lead counsel for a group of minority students in the pivotal 2003
Growing Demand for Gov. Whitmer to Settle Historic Right to Literacy Case
By Bankole Thompson As Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer remains strictly silent over the landmark historic right to literacy case on behalf of Detroit kids, calls
Gov. Whitmer’s Literacy Crisis Sharply Divides incoming American Bar Association President and PuLSE Institute Editor-In-Chief
In a recent landmark decision, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of black schoolchildren in Detroit by affirming the right to
Why Business Must Fight Detroit’s Poverty in COVID-19
By Louis E. James It’s no secret that poverty negatively impacts our community. Even more daunting, the effects of poverty have the greatest impact on