Posts Tagged ‘2008 u.s. elections

November 8, 2008 · Posted in: Cross Border, Image Galleries, In the News

Woman power

AFRICAN-American, Latino and youth votes have been largely credited for helping propel Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Women voters, however, also figured prominently in Obama's victory as 56 percent of women who voted in the November...

PCIJ contributor Joseph Israel Laban shares this personal essay in the wake of the historic election victory the other day of Democrat Barack Obama, making the freshman senator of Illinois, Chicago the first African American president of the United...