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 You can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a true story from radio land that intersects the politics and horror of our times. Pat Ward has a show called “Arkansas Speaks” on KABF-FM, the 100,000-watt station AM/FM manages in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sister Ward is an old school Black Republican. The show tends …
Marble Falls August 29th of each year marks the date that KABF 88.3 FM went on the air in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1984 at 100,000-watts of power as the “Voice of the People” and brought noncommercial community radio to the state. The station, its hosts, and listeners try to mark the anniversary …
Pearl River Jim Lynch, a one-time ACORN staffer back in the day and a long-time KABF board member, sent me the obituary in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette on Pat House’s passing at 94 years of age. Pat was a long-time comrade and friend of our organizations back to the very beginning in 1970 and …