You wouldn’t think scoring a buzzer-beater in a community league basketball game would cost you your life but I woke one morning to find that that’s exactly what it costed one young man in Philadelphia. A lone gunman ambushed three teens, 14, 15 and 16 years old, after a game. The 14 year-old was shot in the arm, the 15 year-old in the face and the 16 year-old in the leg. The 15 year-old later died in the hospital. The others were last listed in critical condition and there have been no arrests. Continue reading
Through the looking glass
Spring time bloom of a wild rose.
Buckwheat Zydeco at the Sunset Jazz Series on the Camden NJ waterfront
Grape tomatoes are doing better after a brief bout with blossom drop
Wildflowers found in inner city. Tried researching their name, found it then lost it.
Marigolds in the summer garden.
Sweet banana peppers coming back after a sketchy start. Not out of the woods yet with wet weather still around.
The TARDIS from series circa 1980, ©Zir.com
Cherry tomatoes always a good producer
Faces of the original marchers. Of the 250,00 attending, 60,000 of those were white.
Harp & Lorber
But he nevertheless came to play for Camden on the waterfront
Getting his waa-waa on…
A day at the shore with my girl…
A bit of undeveloped Atlantic City. i think one of the most beautiful parts of it, places like this…
Lunchtime on the first day of the shutdown at the Liberty Bell exhibit exit at 6th and Chestnut Streets. Philadelphia Pa. Tourists usually are all over this but not today.
Cracking! A problem. Next year, a timer on the water line for sure. For now though, pick them green and ripen them indoors. Still be good!
The Mall early on
There and getting our bearings
One of the many organizations represented
On the Mall
On the Mall 101015
Prophets and vendors on the Mall
L.J. on the Mall 101015
Making contacts
Kind of surreal next to a symbol of democracy
Keita and Lynell on the Mall 101015
James, Keita and Lynell with the next generation. Hope.
Crowds starting to arrive
At Greenbelt Station going to the Mall
A huge crowd at Archives Station escalator
And of course, the ubiquitous surveillance tower, seen soon in a city near you
This is what indifference looks like.
“Lynching of Laura Nelson and her son 2” by George H. Farnum, Okemah photographer
An example of the black codes from 1742
Historical Shackles
A 1943 Colored Waiting Room sign from Rome Georgia. This is what white power now ultimately means.
Members of the Black Panther Party, stripped, handcuffed, and arrested after Philadelphia police raided the Panther headquarters, August, 1970. Credit – Urban Archives, Temple University
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What’s next for Black Lives Matter?
Photo by Fibonacci Blue from Minnesota, USA
They’re three words in the simplest of sentences; an adjective, a noun as a subject and a verb. They were supposed to make people aware of the sanctity of all life, particularly African-Americans. They were introduced because blacks were the ones mostly being killed by police and the words Black Lives Matter were intended to be a reminder to law enforcement of their pledge to protect all citizens. Yet over the course of just a few years, the words have managed to alienate many and effectively become something of a battle cry rallying the nation’s police forces against the movement, in expectations of violent insurrection. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
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