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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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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