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 Dollar stores are now literally everywhere. How can you miss them, especially in rural and lower-income areas? It’s not easy. There are 18,000 Dollar Generals, 16,162 Dollar Trees, and they own another 8,200 Family Dollars. That’s 42,362 stores, and they’re still opening new ones as often as they can. Driving an …
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 …
New Orleans Not only is the old saw true that it is “impossible to legislate morality,” it may be even harder to order it by judicial dictate. It’s early days, but we may be already seeing the resistance to this new Prohibition, almost a century after the last try when it came to …