Our friend Ben Jealous emailed today about a very cool web viral campaign from the NAACP where you upload your photo and your hopes for the next "in my lifetime" event. The photos and text get added to a virtual collage. The site is here and Ben's email below: It's real. An African American presidentContinue reading "NAACP: An African American President. What’s Next in Your Lifetime?"
Wear the Rainbow to Celebrate Inauguration Day
By Margaret M. Russell, Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law, and Equal Justice Society board member Like many in the Bay Area, I can hardly wait for Inauguration Day. Weeks before the election, I felt impelled to book my flight to DC because this would be a joyous moment I could not miss. AnContinue reading "Wear the Rainbow to Celebrate Inauguration Day"
Rev. Rick Warren and the Question of Challenging our New President
Just as the Equal Justice Society was last month closing up shop for the year, two of our beloved board members, Tobias Wolff and Kate Kendell, blogged about their opposition to Rev. Rick Warren's selection by President-Elect Obama to deliver the invocation for the Jan. 20 inauguration ceremonies. Read Tobias's "The Voice That WillContinue reading "Rev. Rick Warren and the Question of Challenging our New President"