Bankole Thompson
Editor-In-Chief at thepulseinstitute.org
Nationally Acclaimed Journalist, Host of 'Bankole's Nation' Podcast, Dean @InstitutePu; Opinion Columnist at The Detroit News; New book: Fiery Conscience.
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2 days ago |
detroitnews.com | Bankole Thompson
Bankole ThompsonThe Detroit NewsView Comments Many establishment Democrats around the country were probably shocked waking up the day after New York’s Democratic mayoral primary to discover that a little-known state lawmaker Zohran Kwame Mamdani was the likely next mayor of New York City and the first Muslim in that role.
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6 days ago |
detroitnews.com | Bankole Thompson
Bankole ThompsonView Comments For all the chest thumping about the economic revitalization of Detroit a major issue remains unresolved: the lack of retailers within the city limits. Aside from the relatively few stores inside the city — including a Nike store in downtown, a Meijer on Jefferson and a Whole Foods in Midtown — there is no other huge retailer, even though it is a major urban center. Where are Detroiters supposed to shop and get jobs?
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1 week ago |
detroitnews.com | Bankole Thompson
Bankole ThompsonView Comments Detroit’s billionaire investor and mortgage titan Dan Gilbert told Bloomberg Businessweek recently that he would like to donate his billions while he is still around. Without elaborating much on how he plans to do so, Gilbert, who is said to be worth $30 billion said, “One thing that people don’t realize is that it’s fun building it, but it’s more fun to give it away.
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2 weeks ago |
detroitnews.com | Bankole Thompson
Bankole ThompsonView Comments The Rev. Solomon W. Kinloch Jr.’s rise in the Detroit mayoral race has thrust the Black church to the front and center of the city’s politics in ways not seen in recent memory. No mayoral candidate who is also an ordained minister has risen to the No. 2 spot in a race.
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2 weeks ago |
detroitnews.com | Bankole Thompson
Bankole ThompsonView Comments For decades, Democrats have relied on the fact that Blacks and other minorities will never identify with any party other than the one that ushered in most of the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. That became the inescapable thinking inside a party that saw itself as the grand savior of the Black community and the institution for progressive causes — even when some of their actions had little or nothing to do with theconcept of progressivism.
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