In honor of Black History Month, Family Pictures USA remembers those who fought for the civil liberties of a people who were denied and mistreated for so long. We are […]
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Yance Ford on Family Photographs in His Film “Strong Island”
“Strong Island chronicles the arc of a family across history, geography and tragedy – from the racial segregation of the Jim Crow South to the promise of New York City; from the […]
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
“In Afro-Atlantic Flight, Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to […]
The Language of Light
“I met writer Doug Cooper Spencer via Facebook and asked him to consider writing a piece. A few days later he sent me his essay, ‘The Language of Light’, a […]
Chief of the Red Caps: James H. Williams and The Making Of A Harlem Community Hero
By Eric K. Washington “At the Grand Central station is a colored man who probably knows more people than any other Negro in New York,” a front page lede in […]
Found Tinytypes Paint a Historical Picture of Sag Harbor, New York
A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or […]