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 Let’s talk about the FBI searching Trump’s place at Mar-de-Largo and the hootenanny from the right that followed their look see for all of the secret documents that Trump had been playing hide-and-seek with the National Archives since he left office. My kneejerk reaction has been, “get over yourself!” Where are these …
Pearl River It was painful to read a recent expose about Alabama. The reporter had spent four months getting a handle on how fines and fees finance small town and county governments in the largely rural Black Belt and were sentencing residents into permanent penury. The State of Alabama is no different because of …
Little Rock Sometimes the little things remind us that we’re fighting the same war, but on different battlefronts. I’ve read both of Isabel Wilkerson’s books, first, The Warmth of Other Suns, the award-winning book on the Great Migration, and, more recently, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Seeing that she was giving a …