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".
June 9, 2021 New Orleans In third grade, as a new arrival to New Orleans, we were bused to the decrepit, now condemned, and long gone, giant wooden Lakeview Elementary School. Mrs. Quirk, my teacher, was a character that I’ll never forget, not so much for what she taught me, although I remember being fascinated …
New Orleans An exhaustive study of Census Bureau figures for 20 million people now in their late 30s by researchers from Stanford and Harvard has produced some terrible facts that establish firm proof behind what many have suspected: race is ubiquitous in oppressing and institutionalizing inequality among African-American men. As a community organizer, one of …