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".
July 29, 2021 Little Rock How about some good news for a change? Unbelievably, this is a silver lining attached to the tragic clouds of the pandemic. A comprehensive research project by the Urban Institute found that: The number of poor Americans is expected to fall by nearly 20 million from 2018 …
Black Student Union members and supporters outside the UW Administration Building July 28, 2021 New Orleans I skim the Arts section of the New York Times. As I was taking it to recycling yesterday, something caught my eye. It was a picture of young Black men raising their fists in front of a …
July 27, 2021 New Orleans As the clock ticks to the final days of the national eviction moratorium and the beginning of what many predict will be the eviction tsunami, this housing crisis joins the long line of other crises we have experienced, including almost everything with the pandemic, as case studies in …