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".
Atlanta Reading about the impact of mortgage lending discrimination and gentrification in New York City and its metropolitan area, this snippet jumped out at me: New York was ranked the ninth most segregated city in the country, according to a June study by the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California Berkeley. …
New Orleans No questions in my mind. We need to be long gone from Afghanistan. Also, no questions in my mind that the scenes at the airport and the chaos of the evacuation are heart rending. I hold my breath that for all of the real and crocodile tears being shed in …
Pearl River In the coming days I’ll be driving from Louisiana through Mississippi, then Alabama and Georgia before I get to Atlanta. Once there, I’ll do my work, and then roll through Georgia, northern Alabama, a touch of Tennessee, and then a big chunk of eastern Arkansas until I get past Forrest City and pick …