WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River Recently, I listened to one of the public library’s audiobooks by bell hooks called Belonging: A Culture of Place. It might have been called “my old Kentucky home,” because part of what she was extolling was the Black rural southern culture of her raising in Hopkinsville in the southwestern part of the …
Pearl River The Organizers’ Forum recently visited Bilbao in Spain. In making the agenda we had to deal with the fact that many people, especially in contemporary North American and perhaps globally only know the city culturally, because of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. To go one step farther, most only know the museum because …
Pearl River The good news just keeps coming out of the White House these days, as hard as that may be for some to hear. In this case, the news came almost right from the horse’s mouth, the new press secretary for the White House, not the voice of God exactly, but certainly the …