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".
Marble Falls Jesse Jackson, prominent civil rights leader for decades and two-time presidential candidate, has passed away at 84 years of age. Jackson and his advocacy for African-Americans, economic development, and have nots here and abroad, were unstinting and a longtime part of the news cycle from his days with SCLC and Operation …
Pearl River The obituary for H. Rap Brown, now know as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, was on the front page of the New York Times. He had died in prison at 84 years old, where he had been for some years, convicted controversially for shooting some deputy process servers at his store in the Atlanta …
Pearl River Sometimes there are some surprise gifts in this work. Recently, I got one that I’d like to share while reading The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, by legal scholar and University of Michigan law professor, Michelle Adams. Reading the book before talking with …