By Rabbi Denise L. Eger: I am celebrating Barack Obama’s election as president.  I also rejoice because people of every race and every ethnicity and every socio-economic class and every sexual orientation came together to make his presidency possible. But here in California the promise and vision of President–elect Obama’s campaign has been marred by [...]

By John Payton, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund: Here we go again. African American voters constitute only 6% of the California electorate.  Yet, we hear that Proposition 8 in California, the ballot initiative that overturned the decision of the California Supreme Court that marriage was a fundamental right that [...]

On November 4th, this nation witnessed a landmark election.  Perhaps, unthinkable before that amazing Tuesday, this nation – indeed, the entire world – will witness the inauguration of an African-American as President of the United States of America.  This Election Day resulted in another landmark moment as well.  For the first time, one of Ward [...]