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 No Kings Day, only short months after an earlier event in June, was scheduled in more than 2500 towns and cities across the United States. Reports indicate there may have been over 7-million participants. As Jamelle Bouie writes in the Times, Republicans went crazy over people exercising their constitutional right to assemble, …
Pearl River You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a true story from radio land that intersects the politics and horror of our times. Pat Ward has a show called “Arkansas Speaks” on KABF-FM, the 100,000-watt station AM/FM manages in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sister Ward is an old school Black Republican. The show tends …
Pearl River As the years pass by, one after another, in this work we sometimes come to a fuller understanding of the meaning of the word “bittersweet.” It’s a funny word. How can something be both bitter and sweet? I thought of this a couple of years ago reading a long piece in the …