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“You my lucky piece,” Grandma says. Grandma has walked me the half block from the hospital lobby to the bus stop. Her hand is wrapped around mine like a leash. …
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“The Notion Of Family” (2001-2014) (© LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER) http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/ Purchase “The Notion of Family: Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier” at http://aperture.org/shop/frazier-notion-of-family-pb

“The Notion Of Family” (2001-2014) (© LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER) http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/ Purchase “The Notion of Family: Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier” at http://aperture.org/shop/frazier-notion-of-family-pb

“The Notion Of Family” (2001-2014) (© LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER) http://www.latoyarubyfrazier.com/ Purchase “The Notion of Family: Photographs by LaToya Ruby Frazier” at http://aperture.org/shop/frazier-notion-of-family-pb

“In Grandma’ Hands”

© Keith Mallett Studio

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Gordon Parks, “With a great-grandchild. Mobile, Ala..” (1956)

(© Gordon Parks Foundation, courtesy of the Foundation and Salon 94)

http://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/

One of my earliest memories of Mamma, of my grandmother, is a glimpse of a tall cinnamon-colored woman with a deep, soft voice, standing thousands of feet up in the …
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Alan Chin, “Untitled”

© Alan Chin

http://www.alanchin.us/reflection-series/

California Newsreel, 2000.

(Winner of Academy Award, Best Documentary)