January 28, 2021 New Orleans The Year End / Year Begin meeting is a tradition and vital piece of planning, reflection, and celebration with our ACORN family of organizations. This one was different and more subdued, given the pandemic. Some people were around the table in one of our organizing centers …
Are We Living in a Failed State?
January 27, 2021 New Orleans The inauguration was hardly a week ago, and the honeymoon is already over. Ok, you’re right. There was absolutely no honeymoon ever! Who is surprised? Probably no one. Maybe Ol’ Joe, but I even doubt that. I was talking to a friend in San Francisco yesterday while waiting to …
Susie Thomas, the Rock of Pine Bluff
January 26, 2021 New Orleans When ACORN began in Little Rock, the next city where we organized was Pine Bluff in 1971, a river and mill town about 50 miles down the Arkansas River. The first organizer there was Herman Davenport, who I had poached from the Pulaski County Legal Aid …