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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

“Ride or Die!”

My Nana, Joyce Wells Jones (January 22, 1956-) is like my other half. Without her I don’t know what I would think or do sometimes because as …
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Gordon Parks, “Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, Mobile, Alabama,” (1956), Archival Pigment Print, 30 × 30 inches (© Gordon Parks Foundation, courtesy of the Foundation and Salon 94)

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“Ursa Corre. I know what the ‘U’ stands for but I keep getting the last one wrong. Corrente. Corredo.” “Corregidora. Old man Corregidora, the Portuguese slave breeder and whoremonger. (Is …
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We have to live differently

or we will die in the same

old ways.

Therefore I call on all Grand Mothers everywhere on the planet to rise and take you …
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They have fenced in the dirt road that once led to Wards Chapel A.M.E. church, and cows graze among the stones that mark my family’s graves. The massive oak …
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My Grandmother is waiting for me to come home We live with walnuts and apples in a one-room kitchenette above The Some Day Liquor Gardens.

My Grandmother sits in a …
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Richard Pryor’s grandmother’s Marie Pryor features prominently not only in his journey to stardom, but also his comedic material. Pryor was born to LeRoy “Buck” Pryor and …
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Photo credit: http://www.becomingrichardpryor.com/pryors-peoria/people/marie-pryor