D.C.’s Funk Parade Is A Reason To Reclaim Our Optimism

Tulip Frenzy Funk Parade 17-11

All images Leica Monochrom Typ-246 and 50mm APO-Summicron-Asph

Just a year ago, we believed that the annual Funk Parade along U Street was a reason to live in the Nation’s Capital.  What a simple, innocent world we lived in then, when those of us in urban areas were clueless about the post-election pall about to fall upon the land.  But if you want to reclaim your sense of what life could be like if people of good will were to come together in a spirit of joy, yesterday’s Funk Parade — despite the rain and gloomy weather — could do it.  Once again on Chocolate City’s “Black Broadway” families came together to share in the funk, and it was wonderful.

Tulip Frenzy Funk Parade 17-5

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One Response to “D.C.’s Funk Parade Is A Reason To Reclaim Our Optimism”

  1. […] Trump’s inauguration attending joyous but still angry demonstrations, it was like a holiday just to revel in the funk. Last year, in sunshine, I shot in color and if you’d like to get a sense of what this event […]

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