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".
May 30, 2021 Pearl River The 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and race riot has brought needed attention to the impact of violent racism on Black wealth that erupted in the post-Reconstruction period after the Civil War and continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. It was disappointing, even though highly understandable, …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN07302020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans As a Nikole Hannah-Jones fan, I followed her arguments carefully and approvingly in a recent piece in the New York Times as she demolished one quick fix after another that would achieve increased racial equity as she built up to her conclusion that reparations …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans A common occurrence on the road to freedom from the “peculiar institution” of slavery, as some termed it, was yet another promise broken. General Sherman’s promise of “40 acres and mule” to allow former slaves to gain economic stability rather than starting with nothing …