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".
New Orleans Living in the USA, I’m so sick of reading about Trump, Cornell, Iran, and more that stumbling on a story with a happy ending seems like a gift in itself. Surprisingly there was one in the New York Times, of all places. It starts in sadness, of course. A New York …
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 …