New Orleans Drummond Pike is the founder and CEO of Tides, which includes the Tides Foundation, Tides Center, and a host of other “water” named and great organizations. He has been a boon comrade of mine for four decades, and it is not surprising to see that he posted up something on his blog …
Month: June 2008
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Detroit As a special treat for the members, we had made the decision to bring in a play from New York called “Collard Greens and Plantanos,” sort of a hip-hop thing that was a little edgy, funny, and drove a hard message about African-Americans and Latino relationships. This was going to be the first …
Fighting Poverty and Foreclosures
Detroit In his speech before the find day of the ACORN Convention, former Senator John Edwards laid the gauntlet down on the “Half in 10” campaign to cut poverty in half in ten years working with ACORN and other grounds. The Detroit Free Press captured his remarks: "This is not going to …