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Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is a national multimedia community engagement initiative where individuals, families, and communities can share their pictures within an interactive online environment that maps Photography from the African Diaspora across time, place, and genre.

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“So this is a picture of #love. The love that I come from - my mother's parents. I come from this.” - @michelleisrizin 💓 Share your favorite photos this week with hashtag #1World1Family and tell us who YOU love and cherish for ❤ #ValentinesDay2019! ❤ . . . #FamilyPicturesUSA #tvseries #pbs #familyphoto #familyphotos #familyalbum #oldphoto #memories #vintagelove #vintagephoto #photoalbum https://www.instagram.com/p/BtyZ37Eldh-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12m960e77ah8d

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What's Your Paradise Story? We want to see your #pictures! Family Pictures USA will be in #Southwest #Florida w/ host @tahj84 starting next week to film & preserve your #photos & #SWFlorida #memories! Limited spots left for our #castingcall - if you have roots or any connection to the area, call us at 212-281-6002, or toll free at 1-877-437-8723. This new #television #tvseries is like Antiques Roadshow but with #familypictures & personal #archive. . . #FamilyPicturesUSA #familyphoto #familyhistory #paradisecoast #FortMyers #Immokalee #Naples #Everglades #community #peopleshistory #representation #familyphotos #familyalbum #stories (at Fort Myers, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BohiF8Xlea0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yi1ot2usxapg

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What's Your Paradise Story? We want to see your #pictures! Family Pictures USA will be in #Southwest #Florida w/ host @tahj84 starting next week to film & preserve your #photos & #SWFlorida #memories! Limited spots left for our #castingcall - if you have roots or a connection to the area, call us at 212-281-6002 or toll free 877-437-8723. This new #television #tvseries is like Antiques Roadshow but with #familypictures & personal #archive! . . #FamilyPicturesUSA #familyphoto #familyhistory #paradisecoast #FortMyers #Immokalee #Naples #peopleshistory #community #representation #stories #familyalbum #familyphotos (at Fort Myers, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BohguksAEF0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12c59470rq3ph

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Family Pictures USA is coming to Southwest Florida and the Paradise Coast with host Thomas Allen Harris @tahj84! If you’ve always wanted to be on TV, and you have family photographs and a story to share then click on the link in our bio for a chance to be part of our second episode! @wgcupublicmedia @familypicturesusa #familypicturesusa #1world1family #familyphotos #southwestflorida #paradisecoast #swflorida #immokalee #naplesflorida #photoalbum #tvcasting #castingcall #thomasallenharris #familyarchives #oldphotos #familyhistory #floridahistory #wgcu #fortmyers #family #photoarchive #familyorigins https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1x9IChKNG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i4wfmv5jc6jc

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MOTHER, BETHEL, HARLEM, USA opening reception tomorrow Thursday @ 6-9pm at the @hehgallery! Works by Thomas Allen Harris @tahj84 and his grandfather's #Harlem archives will be shown, along with works by Thomas's @ima.mfa students that are inspired by his #familyphotos practice. See link in bio for more info! . . #bethelame #photography #EastHarlem #artists #NYC #vintage #harlemhistory #artgallery #archive #newyorkcity #art #nycart (at Hunter East Harlem Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnE_KmShZL5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t14ym6wfbfct

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New #interactive art installation of works by #artist @tahj84 at the @hehgallery, in collaboration with his students from @ima.mfa! Opening reception is next week on August 30 @ 6-9pm. Thomas will be displaying for the first time photographs he took from #JamesBaldwin @stjohndivinenyc funeral, along with his grandfather's documentation of @famebethel and old #Harlem! Materials of Harlem locals with their #family #archives taken during our Digital Diaspora Family Reunion roadshow at @harlemstage will also be featured to help celebrate Harlem! Thomas's students will also have their works displayed that are inspired by the photo album, practices of archiving, and the local community of Harlem. . #artgallery #artinstallation #photographers #exhibition #bethel #eastharlem #harlemartist #photography #photoexhibition #gallery #oldharlem #nycartgallery (at Hunter East Harlem Gallery)

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"This was May of 2000, that would make Maya almost a year. We always wanted to be with our kids, so I actually had Maya all the time. This backpack was like it was just me and Maya, and we'd walk around all over town and do all sorts of fun stuff. But now she doesn't fit on my back anymore." - @bhawin Share your photos with #1World1Family to be featured in our family pictures highlights! . #fatherdaughter #familymemories #familypictures #familyphoto #parenting #parenthood #childhood #fatherslove (at Grand Street Community Arts)

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"Three or four years before we joined my dad in #Philly, he sent us a matching pair of Eagles jackets for #Christmas while we were still in #Portugal. We could not resolve the astro quality of those silver sleeves with anything we owned, or with the jacket itself. In the parish where we lived, at the rural edges of #Lisbon’s district, drawing attention to oneself was inherently a bad thing... but there we were: two kids wearing these garish jackets because Dad sent them." - @senseandsight . Read her story about moving to Philly from Portugal in our latest Family Pictures USA blog! #1world1family #myphillyphoto #diaspora #childhoodmemories #childhood #origins #familyphoto #philadelphiaeagles #philadelphia #phillymemories (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

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"I never met my great-#grandfather. Tonight I visited my #grandmother who is 91 and now in a nursing home. She told my step-father and I about her #father going to work and getting home sometimes at 3 in the morning. Despite getting in late, he was always out the door at 6 in the morning. When she asked where he went so early, he responded, "Peaches, it's not a place for kids." After bothering him about it a few more times, he let her go with him. They walked over 20 blocks before standing in a line over 4 blocks in length. It was the #GreatDepression and they were in a bread line where families were given a loaf of bread and a jar of milk. She looked up to him so much and the glimmer lives in her eyes still." - @katyhamer Celebrate Father's Day! Share your favorite fatherhood photo and story using #1world1family #memories #stories #storytelling #oldphoto #familyhistory #documentary #familypictures #picoftheday #fathersday #1930s #ushistory #dad #fatherhood

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"This is the day we #adopted our son. Our son's name is Patrick Kelly. My #daughter, Mary, got to hold Pat. He was six weeks old there. Before they gave him to me, she got to bond with her #brother, give him the bottle and do all that good stuff. Great, great bonding, great #memories. It's good #history." - Kathleen Kelly 🌎 #1wolrd1family #Detroit #mydetroit #Familypictures #stories #storytelling #diaspora #familyhistory #TV #tvseries #adoption #adoptionislove #adoptionisbeautiful #adoptedchild #childhood #family #photography #ourboy

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"Uncle Bobby in 1945 during #WorldWarII. Despite the #mistreatment of #AfricanAmericans in America, untold numbers joined the ranks of it's #military in hopes of being accepted and respected by the larger society. All of the men in my family during the #1940's and 50's were servicemen. I am duty bound to make sure that their #history is preserved." - @jamelshabazz 🌎 #1world1family #familypictures #stories #memories #storytelling #oldphoto #diaspora #familyhistory #TV #tvseries #documentary #worldwar2history #ww2 #veteran ##WorldWar2

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“My #cherokee great-#grandmother Francis Clarke Morgan (center standing) in a country western band that toured the #WestCoast in the early #1930's, during the #Depression. She's playing a National Steel String #guitar. The band had four steel strings and one #ukulele - what a sound that must've been!” - @whitehearttobey 🌎 #1world1family #familypictures #stories #memories #diaspora #storytelling #vintage #familystory #oldfamilyphotos #oldphotos #familyhistory #nativeamerican #americanindian #nativepride #nativeculture #music #1930s #steelstringguitar #countrymusic #womeninmusic #musichistory

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"This is my role model, my #father, Henry Gray. He had seven #kids, different #mothers, but he was the kind of father that made sure that all of us knew each other. Despite the difficulties with #relationships, he packed us up in this old station wagon and got us together every weekend. He was also a hard working man. He worked all his life until the day he died, but he left here with his pride intact. He didn't ask anybody for anything. He made everything, and he's my #rolemodel." - Ken Gray 🌎 #1world1family #Detroit #mydetroit #stories #memories #diaspora #storytelling #fmailypictures #familyhistory #myrolemodel #documantary #TV #tvseries #vintage #familystory #oldfamilyphotos #oldphotos

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"My dad in 1939 trading in the #MerchantMarine for the United States Navy. He is a Port Chicago #survivor. Port Chicago was the nation's largest and most violent stateside #military disaster of #WW2 sparked by the racism of White officers who treated Black sailors like #slaves. Almost lynched for entering a PX on base reserved for White sailors, he suffered under #segregation and #racism of the #USmilitary and still served with honor and distinction. Listening to his stories renders 'Anchors Aweigh' into a slow blues..." - Victor Sanchez 🇺🇸 Memorial day weekend is upon us! Share your story and photo using #1world1fmaily 🌎 #Memorial #memorialday #veteran #navy #usnavy #memorialdayweekend #stories #memories #storytelling #oldphoto #diaspora #familyhistory #TV #tvseries #documentary #blackandwhite #family #1930s #PortChicago

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"My #father, Herman Hudson, was a very brilliant, outstanding student, but what was most outstanding about him is that at the early age of 2 or 3, he developed spinal meningitis and grew up #blind. His #mother made sure that he was not put in classes that he felt were for the #disabled. She really pushed #education and he read #braille. He went on to get his #master 's, #bachelor 's, and #PhD at the #UniversityofMichigan. Then, he went on to do very outstanding work beyond #Michigan." - Margaret Collins 🌎 #1world1family #familypictures #Detroit #stories #memories #storytelling #oldphoto #diaspora #familyhistory #TV #tvseries #documentary #blackandwhite #family #graduate #university #photoarchive #familyarchives

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"My father's older sister, Alda Calligaris Romanelli was born in #Detroit. She met my uncle Paul as young people and they married. Uncle Paul served in #WorldWarII in #Europe and unfortunately was killed at the age of 25. She was a young #widow. She never had #children of her own, but loved kids and became active in the #GoldStarWives. Gold Star Wives is an #organization countrywide that garnered benefits for children that were left without parents, mostly fathers because of the war. My aunt was #president of the Gold Star Wives for several years. She would drive all over the country in the days when #career #women had it more difficult. She was able to procure many benefits for them."- Janice Calligaris-Sur 🌎 #1world1family #Detroit #goldstarfamilies #WWII #diaspora #familypictures #stories #memories #storytelling #oldphoto #familyhistory #TV #tvseries #documentary #Italian #Italianamerican #portrait #love #woman #worldwar #newspaper #veteran #couple #feminist #photography #TheDetroitNews #feminism #vintage #bw #blackandwhite

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"This means a lot to me that I can share this city with my #kids. Living #downtown is such an amazing thing to me because they get to see people from all walks of #life, all socio-economic backgrounds, as well as all racial backgrounds. It's very difficult when you go to all the different suburbs and you can't always see people who look like you. I grew up in a #community where I was a minority. My #husband, even though he's #Caucasian, grew up in the city of #Detroit, where he was a minority. So we definitely have that in common. That is why I love, love, love raising my kids in downtown Detroit. This is where we want to continue to raise them so that they're good, well rounded people." - Molika Biernat 🌎 Join our #BayArea Family Pictures USA Roadshow at #CAAMFest post screening TONIGHT! 📣Link In Bio! #1world1family #familypictures #familyreunion #stories #memories #diaspora #photography #diversity #interracial #TV #tvseries #documentary #episodicseries #storytelling #caamfest36 #family(Oakland Museum of California에서)