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".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CN05272020realone.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There’s a very clear lesson emerging from all the news these days: keep your cellphone handy and learn how to press video record. It might not save your life, but it might bring you or someone else justice, and that’s still important. You can be …
New Orleans Around Christmas the Washington Post broke an important story with a Louisiana footprint, but a national shadow. The Post reporter went through some records on more than 200 police offices that had been discharged from the notorious, federally supervised New Orleans Police Department as part of their cleanup in recent years. They found …
New Orleans A book on lynching is really not the kind of thing that a lot of people would pull off the shelves for a summer read, but they might be wrong for thinking that way, at least if listening to Dr. Karlos Hill on KABF’s Wade’s World is any indication. Dr. Hill, a professor …