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 Sometimes there are some surprise gifts in this work. Recently, I got one that I’d like to share while reading The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, by legal scholar and University of Michigan law professor, Michelle Adams. Reading the book before talking with …
Pearl River A brief note emailed to two-million federal workers suggested that they must decide within a few days whether to take a buyout offer that would pay them through September and resign, or, essentially, take their chances about whether in the new regime their job and their ability to remain employed would survive. …
New Orleans In a tradition going back to her high school days, when everything comes together, we lure our daughter and sometimes our son over on one early morning every week when I’m in town to have a cup of coffee with us and a catch-up. The usual family topics were covered of …