Long exposure to capture the full array of police car lights. 12MP camera.

Treading the Waters, Part 11

When we were last with young Gerald, he was in the Garden District of New Orleans. For the very first time in his life he had gotten behind the wheel of a car, but it was a sports car he had stolen with his best friend… 

Photo from a balcony, looking down on the streets of D.C.

Dirty Down Old Town

Street Sense Media vendor Fredric John’s poem about historic down town D.C.

Photo of the 2nd & D shelter building taken from across the street with a fence and "Do Not Enter" street sign in the foreground.

Murder near 2nd & D

On Monday, July 2, a man was shot with a handgun and killed near the entrance to the Community for Creative Nonviolence shelter located at 2nd and D Streets NW.

Photo of gun control march in D.C.

Gun Control

Let’s sit at the bargaining table and talk and think this issue through without guns. Let’s share food, not the death of another human being.

a storm

Crime near the Capitol

I was robbed on the 30N bus on the night of April 26 at 12:55 a.m. The crime was committed blocks away from the Capitol building, the bus stop near the  intersection of Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, NW.

Treading the Waters, Part 1

This new series chronicles Gerald Anderson’s time running the streets and going in and out of prison. It will eventually become his sophomore autobiographical book. You can purchase the first book, “Still Standing: how an ex-con found salvation in the floodwaters of Katrina,” from Gerald directly or find it on Amazon.com.

Two signs above the crows, "Guns Do Kill Be People" and "Black Lives Matter," with the U.S. Capitol in the background.

Guns and our lives: A letter to the open-minded

Vendor Wendell Williams argues for the importance of stricter gun control for handguns, which disproportionately cause harm in black and Hispanic communities, as well as for assault weapons.

Assault rifle

Bring back the ban

In 1994, an assault-weapons ban signed by President Bill Clinton outlawed the AR-15. But the law had a lot of loopholes and gun manufacturers circumvented it by modifying the weapons. The ban was written to expire after ten years and was lifted in 2004. Democrats tried to renew it, but there wasn’t much interest in Congress. I think President Trump can do the same but make stronger impact on banning assault-weapons. If you buy an AR-15 for sports, gun stores should ask the buyer for sporting proof. This weapon should not be used for hunting.

Marchers hold up their signs protesting gun violence

Listen to the children!

To plan the murder of innocents in a sacred place is barbaric. (As a teacher, I consider all educational institutions sacred.) Their minds are on their lessons, friends, plans for lunch or what to wear to the party on Saturday night. Not one child is thinking “Someone is going to kill me today.” If they had thought that, I’m sure they would have stayed home.  

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