Johnnie Pugh

ACORN Arkansas

            New Orleans         Johnnie Pugh, a longtime member and leader of ACORN in Arkansas, passed away.  Anyone who has seen the documentary, The Organizer, will remember her as a star talking about having joined in 1971 and working with Gloria Benson Wilson.  Gloria was elected to the Little Rock city director seat, that Johnnie …

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Churches Unbound

Non-Profit Religion

            New Orleans      Recently, in response to a bit of push and shove from the Trump administration and its compliant appointees, the IRS announced that churches will now be able to make political endorsements to its members.  There wasn’t much attention given to this announcement.  Most commentators simply shrugged, since mostly the restriction against …

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