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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

“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity

PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent and non-partisan anti-poverty think tank, wanted to know what academics studying poverty around the country are thinking

“Selective information is misinformation.” –Judge Damon J. Keith By Tina M. Patterson, Esq Now perhaps more than ever, we are faced with an array of

PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES The consequential legacy of the late Damon J. Keith, who served as Senior Judge of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals,

PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES The global disruption that the coronavirus pandemic has already created is having an impact on colleges across the nation, which are shifting

Editor’s Note: This column, part of The Douglass Project, The PuLSE Institute’s premiere research vessel addressing issues of race, equity, democracy and poverty, explains the

PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES There is a national push for the release of prisoners, who could be infected by the coronavirus behind prison walls. The fight

PULSE ENCOUNTER SERIES Former U.S. Representative David Bonior served Michigan in Congress for 26 years. Eleven years as the Democratic whip, the number two position

Editor’s Note: Bankole Thompson, the editor-in-chief of The PuLSE Institute, Detroit’s independent and non-partisan anti-poverty think tank, was the keynote speaker for Michigan State University’s 

Editor’s Note: Joan Blaney, a plain advocate for the black community in the United Kingdom, is the author of From Kitchen Sink to Boardroom: Realizing Women’s

By Bankole Thompson In his seminal work, Black Theology and Black Power, James Cone, one of the great theologians of the 20th century writes, “Black theology must

Pastor Solomon Kinloch, is man to watch in Detroit’s future. Cloaked in a gentle character, Kinloch pastors one of the largest and fastest growing churches

By Robert S. Weiner and Zach Filtz The PuLSE Institute House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and President Donald Trump have called for a next “phase