PURE Academy — PURE standing for Progressing Under Restraints and Extremes — is the brainchild of Melvin Cole. He had long led mentorship groups but found that oftentimes kids would go home ...

PURE Academy’s founder Melvin Cole says it was ... “Because we solve the number one problem, our kids are living in double the national poverty. Our kids need to be removed from poverty ...

PURE Academy was Cole's answer to that. A private, boy's only school, where kids stay during the year, it was his response to fixing the issue of someone's environment leading them down the wrong ...