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 In the National Basketball Association, the NBA, the New Orleans Pelicans, as we now call ourselves, often get little respect. We’ve had some great players like Chris Paul and Anthony Davis, but often we have not had great teams. Twenty teams make the playoffs annually, but for the last four years, …
New Orleans It’s a fact of modern American life that most of family wealth lies right under the roof where we live. If you are able to buy a house, then you’ve managed to move up a rung on the ladder towards more security. Many economists and politicians would have us believe that …
Pearl River Justice may be blind, but when race is involved, perhaps it is deliberately so. Two recent court decisions, one in Baton Rouge and the other in Denver, that rose from protests around Black Lives Matter and, more specifically, George Floyd’s killing by police, offer stark differences. Jurors in Colorado ordered the city …