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 I’ve never had any time for the Wizard of Oz, book by L. Frank Baum or movie featuring Judy Garland, although of course I know it well as a cultural touchstone. Turns out, thanks to Jacobin, it seems, despite sometimes thinking of myself as a …
Pearl River The Queen is dead. Long live the King. I think that’s the way it goes. Elizabeth II, passed away at 96 after a long 70 year run in the castle. On this side of the pond, what do we make of it? A curiosity from another …
Pearl River As soon as I was contacted about talking to Emory Professor Falguni Sheth on Wade’s World about her book, Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, I was in. The Alliance Citoyenne, ACORN’s affiliate in France, had been fighting all levels of government there to overturn restricts on women with hijab being …