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 I first met Jerome Smith in 1976. I didn’t know who he was or anything about him then. We had just opened the ACORN office in New Orleans on Howard Avenue near Lee Circle. One of our primary funders then was the Sherwood Forest Foundation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The money …
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 …