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Presiding Bishop Emeritus Blake Joins The PuLSE Institute Advisory Panel
By Sentinel News Service
Presiding Bishop Emeritus Charles E. Blake Sr. (The PuLSE Institute)
The Right Reverend Charles E. Blake Sr., presiding bishop emeritus of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), the largest Black Christian denomination in the country with a membership of 6.5 million, and an international statesman and humanitarian, has been named to the National Advisory Panel of The PuLSE Institute (Institute for Public Leadership and Social Equity), a national anti-poverty think tank headquartered in Detroit.
Blake will join Dr. Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and a member of the board of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital in South Africa; Sister Simone Campbell, a leading Catholic social justice advocate who gave the invocation at the 2020 Democratic National Convention; Dr. Bernard LaFayette, a top aide to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and the National Coordinator of the 196