Just learned that in 1944, the @uaw.org fought book banning in Detroit, when the city banned the novel Strange Fruit for portraying an interracial romance. The UAW and the Detroit Public Library teamed up to overturn the ban.
From their 1944 convention proceedings at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

My latest weekly Substack (please subscribe) is about the time that composer Aaron Copland crossed paths with Communist farmers in Minnesota:
open.substack.com/pub/taylordo...

The year is 2009 and you just got one of these bad boys. What do you shoot with it first?

First time running film through this Leica that I've been repairing. I loaded up a small test roll on Saturday, shot it, used year-old chemicals to develop, and confirmed that I need to do a curtain replacement.

Thinking about how cool it is that Detroit has the country's largest monument dedicated to labor, "Transcending," and that anyone can go the waterfront and check it out.

Learn more about the Michigan Labor History Society's gift to the Motor City: michiganlaborhistorysociety.com/wp-content/u...