Two days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, still cringing from the hyper-nationalism of his inaugural speech, still yearning for rhetoric more truthful and hopeful and universal, I stood in the cold rain at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC. I found solace here, […]
The Inauguration Of Barack Hussein Obama (A Look Back)
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Also on that day, and in the same city (Washington DC), the man in this photograph was selling newspapers on 14th Street, just outside the Columbia Heights metro station. It was bitterly cold, but neither he nor the […]