Bertha Lewis: From ACORN To The Black Institute
From NPR: In this week's "Wisdom Watch" segment, host Michel Martin speaks with Bertha Lewis, former CEO of the Association for Community Organizat...
From NPR: In this week's "Wisdom Watch" segment, host Michel Martin speaks with Bertha Lewis, former CEO of the Association for Community Organizat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) spent years being a conservative villain and was finally felled in Nov...
AP | Posted 08.20.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from ACORN, the activist group driven to ruin by scandal and financial woes, over being banned fr...
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
In less than two years after ACORN's former ally Barack Obama was elected President, it was subject to a ferocious attack by the right wing of the Republican Party, its allies, and Fox News.
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
A week after Katrina hit New Orleans, Federal Government officials and private relief organizations were still discussing how to send aid to the area. ACORN had already moved into action.
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite a slew of independent investigations exonerating ACORN of misdeeds, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the decision that cutting off ACORN's funding punished ACORN without a trial.
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
Civic leaders across the country should follow the New York Communities for Change coalition's lead. Either big banks become part of the solution or the rest of us will have to Move the Money.
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike Republicans, ACORN has never been convicted of voter registration fraud and there is no evidence that ACORN ever intentionally engaged in registration fraud.
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
A Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit seeks to stop Congress from singling out an organization for punishment without proper investigation or due process.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — ACORN is asking the Supreme Court for help in its lawsuit claiming Congress was wrong to shut off the activist group's federal fund...
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
For years Republicans accused ACORN of corruption and used phony tapes to lead an effort to successfully strip the group of federal funding in 2009. Now, months later, the group has been exonerated from any wrongdoing.
Lee Camp | Posted 05.25.2011
Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011
The hidden-camera tapes of ACORN employees supposedly advising conservative activists disguised as a pimp and prostitute on the best ways to launder t...
Pablo Eisenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Most damaging to ACORN's cause was the reluctance, and indeed failure, of progressive nonprofit groups, large liberal foundations and Democrat politicians to come to Acorn's support and assistance.
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
I am beginning to believe that most well-paid liberal journalists, who are unfamiliar with urban issues and what it's like to be poor in a wealthy society, are quick to believe any story about an African-American group screwing up.
AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Federal prosecutors filed reduced charges Friday against conservative activist James O'Keefe and three others who were accused of ...
Rinku Sen | Posted 05.25.2011
The attack on ACORN isn't about ACORN alone. It's an element of a conservative strategy to discredit the Obama administration, destroy organizing capacity among progressives and quiet voices for change.
Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011
The mainstream media, including the New York Times, played a pivotal role in ACORN's demise through shoddy, opportunistic journalism. But all have refused to acknowledge their role.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times has issued a correction on its stories about the ACORN pimp scandal. After Public Editor Clark Hoyt acknowledged that the paper wa...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of t...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A federal judge who found it unconstitutional that Congress tried to cut funding to the activist group ACORN has rejected a governmen...
John Atlas | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress singled ACORN out for punishment in the absence of any judicial or administrative process adjudicating guilt. The judge declared the act of Congress was an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her p...
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times repeated conservative misinformation that smeared ACORN, and is now refusing to retract their "reporting."
Posted 10.04.2011