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 School has begun in New Orleans now, and I’m betting it’s a sweatbox given our record heatwave. This is the South, so that also means football practices are full swing. Standing on my front porch, I look into the backyard of the neighborhood’s Fredrick Douglass High School, which is also somehow a …
New Orleans The play-pretend of the NCAA, as regulator of US college and university athletes, is steadily and surely coming to an end when it comes to paying them to play. The clock is ticking faster. It’s now just a matter of time. Under constant pressure, including from the courts and the NLRB, …