The Four Mile March, a coalition of civic groups, marched in over 30 major cities on Martin Luther King Day across the Nation to demand change in police department policies. They published ten main demands for changing police forces across the country and vowed to work within their communities to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2015
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On Saturday, January 10, groups opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline rallied at the White House to urge the administration to stop it after the new Republican-led Congress made getting the pipeline built its first issue of business. On Thursday, the Senate Energy Committee passed a bill to expedite the […]
The assault on Charlie Hebdo offices and killing of ten journalists on January 7th was an attack against freedom of expression. It was an attempt to silence free thought but instead woke the need to preserve it. The killers themselves proved this the very moment they opened fire–it was then […]
The stories of homelessness told in this series are but a few of thousands unfolding every day in the Nation’s Capital. These photos depict people who told their personal struggles but there were many more who could not or would not tell their story. There are thousands more in the […]
Byron Hawkins, 49, is a stocky man with bearish hands, a gentle spirit but scars from his fiery past. He speaks of his early life with a certain fondness of “easy times.” He went to Pattison Elementary in southwest DC when he was a boy. His favorite subject was math because his family […]
H-Boy “Homeboy” Poet is a towering slender young man with a few whisks of grey in a curly black beard. His dark unblemished skin is carefully wrapped in a head scarf. His hands are strong with pulsing veins. He wears the clothes he wore last week and the week before, almost never changing. […]