The Feast of Epiphany, celebrated the twelfth day after Christmas, is in part about the New Year's youngest murder victim, Ja'Shawn Powell, the two-year-old boy whose body was found January 4 in an athletic bag on Jackson Avenue in New Orleans.
President-elect Obama has not betrayed his faithful constituents by selecting Pastor Rick Warren to offer the prayer at his inauguration-he has affirmed them. This would include both my yellow-dog Democrat activist sister-in-law and most of my African-American preacher friends here in New Orleans.