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 Living in the South, it is easy to become self-deluded about race. Public and private spaces seem more normalized and less strained than they were many decades ago in restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, and the like, at least in the majority Black city where I live. Don’t get me wrong. Racism …
Pearl River My mother was from the South. She wasn’t just from the South, she was from the deep South, and for better and for worse, there’s hardly any part of the South deeper than the Mississippi Delta and counties like Sunflower where she was raised. She was smart as a whip, and in …
New Orleans When it comes to the rightwing ideological crew, the US Supreme Court is living in their front pocket. Anytime a couple of attorneys general from the deep reds get a wild hair and decide to take a shot at making law before the courts, there always seem to be some justices …