Bankole’s Nation: S2 Ep 6: Sheffield Vs. Kinloch: What is Missing in Detroit Mayor’s Race

04/09/2025 48 min Temporada 2 Episodio 8

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This week on Bankole’s Nation, journalist Bankole Thompson offers an analysis of what is missing in the Detroit mayor’s race between Mary Sheffield, the president of the Detroit City Council, and Solomon Kinloch, the senior pastor of Triumph Church.Thompson, who has had a front-row seat to Detroit’s issues for a long time, discusses what Detroiters are missing in the race for the next leader of one of America’s largest urban centers.In the analysis, Thompson explains how issues such as a universal basic income for Detroit’s underserved population, a topic which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discussed in his last book, “Where Do We From Here: Chaos or Community,” and a host of other issues to address the city’s poverty crisis aremissing from the mayoral race.

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