Written by Darriel McBride Growing up as a bi-racial woman, during the early 2000s to present, has come with its own set of challenges. Despite growing up in New York, one of the most diverse cities in the world, I was born into a mixed family and culture that struggles with anti-Blackness. While being half […]
By Daniel Spector Photographs curated by Daniela Spector In 1976 my mom, Norma Spector, went to Vietnam as a member of an international women’s delegation at the invitation of the Vietnam Women’s Union, representing Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE), an organization she helped found and lead. The Vietnam War had ended but the […]
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While you put the finishing touches on your Holiday menu, do not forget to tell your friends and relatives to bring some family photographs with their sweet potato casserole. Holidays are a wonderful time of coming together and remembering how we got to where we are today. No present is possible without a past, so […]
Story Submitted by Coda Rayo-Garza This one picture of me as a child speaks volumes about who I am now and where I come from. It represents the fire that burns in me to pursue justice and a better world for all. I had no idea how many answers lived in a photograph. Growing up […]
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Phase 1: Anger Growing up, I avoided cameras and family photos like the plague. My house was littered with photo albums filled mostly with people I knew little about. Every holiday and birthday and anniversary tens of people decades older than me would gather around and look at these photos for what felt like hours. […]
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“Behind all your stories is your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.” -Mitch Albom Story submitted by Chrislyn Choo My dad is the jolliest, most generous man I know. I like to think I got my love for storytelling from him. A small island boy from Malaysia, he inhales curry for breakfast and […]
The story below has been shared with Family Pictures USA by Guenevere Crum. Her journey to find her family history led her through libraries, across the country, and over the Atlantic to track down photos and family members. Her efforts spanning decades, we present to you a snippet of her findings: Four images hanging on […]
By Daisy Abreu My family members and I posing for a Quinceañera picture What I remember most about my fifteenth birthday, mis quinces is that it was an extended family affair. My parents hosted the party at El Club Camajuani, the social club located in Union City, New Jersey, and named for my mother’s Cuban hometown, […]
By Mary Geraci 50 years worth of my father’s photography. When my father passed away in 2008, I was left with an entire bookcase of slide boxes filled with fifty years of my father’s photography work. My father with his camera around his neck. He is in NYC as a young man. My father began […]
by Julian Michelucci 80 members of the Lenci, Lotti and Michelucci family. The Lenci, Lotti, and Michelucci families immigrated from Lucca, Italy to Northern California in the late nineteenth century. Initially, they settled in what is now Pacifica, then San Pedro Valley, where they worked in the vegetable farms that carpeted this area. In time, […]
The story below has been shared with Family Pictures USA by Bill Doggett about the path his parents took to resist the unjust practices of a pre-Civil Rights era America in southern California. “It is often said in ancestral black family circles, that ‘God does not bring us this far to leave us.’”– Frances Clarke Doggett Filmmaker Bill […]
Thomas and Ana Flávia in front of the library on the Federal University of Brasilia Campus Last month I went to Brazil to keynote the opening of the “Plural Knowledge: The Social Relevance of the Public University” Conference at the Federal University of Brasilia, as well as to conduct a two day Family Pictures Community […]
By Barbara Tyner Hall Florida’s southwestern coast is made up of a group of mangrove keys known as the Ten Thousand Islands. Chokoloskee Island and Everglades City are located eighty miles west of Miami just off of the Tamiami Trail This is the western gateway to the Everglades National Park. Chokoloskee is one of the […]
Written by Darriel McBride With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s an opportunity for us to not only be thankful for the food we eat, but our families as we celebrate with one another. Growing up on a farm, in North Carolina, has taught the Starling family the importance of knowing exactly where their food […]
Written by Darriel McBride Every year, International Men’s Day is commemorated on November 19th to celebrate the positive that value men bring to the world, their families, and their communities. One of our very own Family Pictures USA participants, Leonardo Gonzalez, is quite literally the embodiment of a man who has brought significant positivity and […]
Written by Darriel McBride Today, according to the most recent statistics from the US Census, there are roughly 20.4 million veterans in the United States, yet among those who have served, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that 40,056 veterans are homeless on any given night. Gulf War veterans face unrelenting barriers […]
Written for Family Pictures USA by Darriel McBride Halloween is perhaps a child’s second favorite holiday next to Christmas. Although, some would argue that you can’t eat your toys, so where’s the fun in that? Growing up, Halloween was like no other holiday. My mother allowed my siblings and I to stay up late after […]
