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 DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, has become a contentious piece of language welded to the conservative attack on “woke” culture. It’s a hard flag to fly right now, and hasn’t been easy in the past either. As a rough substitute for “affirmative action,” which was even more controversial and didn’t …
Pearl River The last of the original Freedom Riders passed away. The obituary in the New York Times told the dramatic, violent story of the price Charles Person, his comrades, and many others were prepared to pay to fundamental social and racial change in America. Life teaches lessons, and Person’s life teaches lessons that …
Pearl River Fani Willis, the Fulton County prosecutor who has filed a conspiracy case against former President Trump and 14 co-conspirators, “…referred to herself as a “flawed” and “imperfect” public servant — pointing to how Martin Luther King Jr. was also an imperfect human being called to public service and changing the world.” Her …