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 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 …
New Orleans This is not a story of letting “no good deed go unpunished,” though it may seem a wee bit like that. It’s really more a story of “the devil is in the details.” Of course, this is a Katrina story in the long tail from the colossal hurricane that pounded the Gulf …