Ric Francis

Singles

An elder relaxes on her porch in an all-black municipality founded by ex-slaves in 1887.
   
A farmer with a load of onions heads towards a market.
   
A water taxi transports a local resident.
     
  
To commemorate the second anniversary of a destructive earthquake that struck on August 15, 2007, Peruvians place candles on the remnants of a church where over two hundred lives were lost.
   
Protesters fill the streets of downtown Los Angeles in what supporters of illegal immigrants have billed as 'a day without immigrants.'
  
Roy Rogers, center, a mortuary assistant, watches over the body of Grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard during a public viewing, Tuesday, Jan.6, 2009, in Inglewood, Calif. Hubbard died Dec. 29 at age 70.
     
  
Viewers pay their respects to former Pres. Ronald Reagan at his Presidential Library.
   
Members of The Nation of Islam distribute the organization's newspaper to participates gathering in the early morning at the capitol.
   
Then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., responds to a question while holding a roundtable discussion with four California residents on economic opportunity Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008, in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles.
     
  
Brenda Price, center, and others observe and celebrate, at Eso Won Bookstore, the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as America's first black president Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Los Angeles.
  
Mduduzi Lawrence, 21, left, with his crew of self-described bandits smoke marijuana mixed with cocaine through broken bottle necks.
   
Zena McCurdie was slashed in the face and kidney area by a fellow high school student.
     
  
African-American inmates talk to clergy and community activist about racial clashes with Latinos.
   
Two teenagers sip malt liquor while a young girl waits for an elevator in the lobby of the Alabama Housing Projects.
   
Macquala McCormick, 5, is enveloped by her mother whose tattoo memorializes Macquala's father.
     
  
The casket containing the body of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, co-founder of the Los Angeles Crips, is wheeled into church. He was executed by the state of California for the murders of four people.
   
Several local boys make do with a toy basketball goal and high spirits.
   
On a very hot and humid day a group of siblings lazily hang out on their front porch.
     
  
Nancy Tunnell, with Veterans for Peace, smooths the sand at a memorial dedicated to American soldiers killed in Iraq.
   
Michael Jackson waves to fans as he arrives at the Santa Barbara County courthouse for his child molestation trial.
   
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis poses for a photograph for a feature about her children's book titled, "It's Hard To Be Five."
     
  
Pope John Paul II is greeted as he arrives for a canonization ceremony at St. Peters Square.
   
Smoke from wildfires near the Oak Park area of Ventura County, Calif., is seen from San Fernando Valley Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005.
  
A partial solar eclipse occurs with the moon shielding 35 percent of the sun.
     
  
Miners leaving the mountains make their way through a pathway of garbage. The horrendous sanitary conditions result from the unregulated disposal of garbage and human waste.