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".
New Orleans I’ve been talking about Trump’s Bad Budget Bill for some time and its determination to push out of the SNAP food stamp system, and soon Medicaid, people and families that are eligible using onerous work requirements and bureaucratic obstacles. Don’t take my word for it or just nod when you hear …
New Orleans Watching “The Mayor of Kingstown” on Netflix is an eerie experience of art seeming to be different from life in a darker, more violent sense, but maybe in fact this series is a warning about life duplicating art. We’re only two seasons down as we follow the tale of how a …
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 …