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 The Louisiana legislature joined the chorus and declared, Equal Pay Day. The day, acknowledged by some, notes the number of days in the year that it has taken women to do the work necessary to be paid the same as men. Irony is unknown to most legislators, but, trust me on …
Marble Falls Finally! Who says that the US Congress can’t agree on anything? The Senate has now unanimously passed legislation that members of the Supreme Court and all federal judges will have post their stock trades and financial holdings in real time. Notice, I said unanimously. In December, the House of Representatives had …
Pearl River On Wade’s World recently, I talked to two law professors Hannah Johnson and Renee Jefferson about how they handicapped the chances of various Black women judges who had been mentioned as possible nominees for the open seat in US Supreme Court. They had some interesting insights on that question. The odds-on favorite they believed was …