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 School has begun in New Orleans now, and I’m betting it’s a sweatbox given our record heatwave. This is the South, so that also means football practices are full swing. Standing on my front porch, I look into the backyard of the neighborhood’s Fredrick Douglass High School, which is also somehow a …
New Orleans I have nothing to add to the women’s basketball controversy that still hangs over LSU’s championship victory, where start forward Angel Reese has been blistered by some for the same things that Iowa’s star guard Caitlin Clark had done in the intense competition of the games. Reese and Clark both agree that …
Mexico City. Being out of the country, doesn’t mean not being able to watch football. In Mexico, there are channels broadcasting the sport in Spanish. Heck, the National Football League plays games in Mexico annually, just as it does in England and even Germany now. There’s no question that football continues to be popular …