Belafonte "provided money to bail Dr. King and other civil rights activists out of jail. He took part in the March on Washington in 1963. His spacious apartment on West End Avenue in Manhattan became Dr. King’s home away from home. And he quietly maintained an insurance policy on Dr. King’s life, with his family as the beneficiary, and donated his own money to make sure the family was taken care of after Dr. King was assassinated in 1968."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/harry-belafonte-dead.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Okay, today’s photo is from Honolulu. It’s an old, rotting VW van. I took with a Leica M10-D and the M-Hexanon 50mm lens. Besides the color and composition, what I like is that the total lack of adornment on the van suggests possibility, like an open canvas.

Editing wise the way the light hit I didn’t have to worry so much about lifting shadows on the van. But I did create a mask for the background to life some of those shadows. I also touched up the green a bit.

#photography

I wrote about Greg Abbott's promise to pardon a man who was inspired by Donald Trump to kill a Black Lives Matter protester, the Republican Party's embrace of political violence, and the news media's perverse insistence on portraying them as "tough on crime" despite all this.

https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/republican-politicians-embrace-another

Time for a proper #Introduction:

I'm a #healthcare policy analyst, advocate and blogger who focuses primarily on the #ACA (#AffordableCareAct), but I also write about #Medicaid, #CHIP and a lot of other U.S. healthcare system stuff. Last year I also gained some attention for #COVID19 data analysis.

During election season I also raise money online for #Democratic candidates.

You can follow my work (& even support it!) at https://ACASignups.net.