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By C. Paschal Eze It is not uncommon for some people to see autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as squarely a challenge and concern for the

PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES The brutal death of George Floyd under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer has placed the searchlight on the City

Editor’s Note: Dorothea Williams-Arnold is a senior fellow at The PuLSE Institute, where she focuses on the academic needs of students in poor communities. She

The PuLSE Institute issued a statement on Saturday about the deaths of Congressman John Lewis and Rev. C.T. Vivian, two notable champions of  the Civil Rights

Our editor-in-chief Bankole Thompson, who is a twice-a-week opinion columnist at The Detroit News, secured the first Brady/Giglio list of police officers with credibility issues in Wayne

Editor’s Note: Tina M. Patterson, a Detroit native and attorney is the president and director of research at The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent anti-poverty think

Mark Rosenbaum, the lead attorney in the groundbreaking Detroit right-to-literacy case, and the director of the Opportunity Under Law Project at Public Counsel, one of the

Bob C. Ezumah, a former Export Promotion and Business Development Manager with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) NEXTT Project, and currently Logistics

William T. Riley, the police chief of the City of Inkster, and a veteran law enforcement official, who has been pushing for a new model

In light of the ongoing protests against police brutality, there is an urgent need to deliver justice for the victims of police violence, and end

Editor’s Note: Dorothea Williams-Arnold is a senior fellow at The PuLSE Institute, where she focuses on the academic needs of students in poor communities. She

Premilla Nadasen, a noted professor of history at Columbia University and at Barnard College, and the president of the National Women Studies Association, is joining The

By Tina M. Patterson, Esq. Juneteenth, a commemoration of the release of the last enslaved Africans in Texas, has been recognized in the United States

JUNETEENTH EDITION Editor’s Note: The roots of the current push against police brutality is directly linked to the resistant movements of the 1950s and 1960s,