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".
Marble Falls I’ve noticed it, and surely you have, too, but social media just isn’t that social anymore. Maybe it’s me, but I don’t think so. Something like Twitter was never a conversation with a community, but more a one-way megaphone, sometimes turned to high volume. Facebook has become more akin to a bulletin …
New Orleans When you first encounter the term “weathering,” you would be forgiven if your first thought was that we were talking about climate change, yet again. In a certain way, maybe we are, because we’re talking about a concept coined by a social scientist for the chronic stress individuals face in our social …
New Orleans How many times can we note that this is all just getting out of control? A white man shoots a young Black teenager in Kansas City who shows up to pick up his even younger twin brothers, no doubt doing an errand for his family, and knocks on the wrong door on …