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 Recently, I listened to one of the public library’s audiobooks by bell hooks called Belonging: A Culture of Place. It might have been called “my old Kentucky home,” because part of what she was extolling was the Black rural southern culture of her raising in Hopkinsville in the southwestern part of the …
New Orleans It’s been interesting and kind of exciting to see data centers become an issue in the midterm elections in many states and communities, as well as something of a movement in the way the needle has moved to finally seek some accountability from our tech and billionaire overlords. The feeding frenzy …
Little Rock Most of us would know better than to let it all hang out in a courtroom trial, but that’s because we’re not filthy rich with only our egos larger than our bank balances. Given that we’re all in the cheap seats looking from afar, we’re now being treated to such a spectacle …