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 There was a time in the late 1960s, when there was a lot of talk among many of us, who were hoping and wishing for change in America, about whether we could make it happen by working on the inside. We were radicals of a sort, so when these late-night discussions …
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 …