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 Watching “The Mayor of Kingstown” on Netflix is an eerie experience of art seeming to be different from life in a darker, more violent sense, but maybe in fact this series is a warning about life duplicating art. We’re only two seasons down as we follow the tale of how a …
Pearl River Recently, I listened to one of the public library’s audiobooks by bell hooks called Belonging: A Culture of Place. It might have been called “my old Kentucky home,” because part of what she was extolling was the Black rural southern culture of her raising in Hopkinsville in the southwestern part of the …
Pearl River The Organizers’ Forum recently visited Bilbao in Spain. In making the agenda we had to deal with the fact that many people, especially in contemporary North American and perhaps globally only know the city culturally, because of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. To go one step farther, most only know the museum because …