He took pictures of our family and ... Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian, May 1999). In 1992 Willis moved to Washington, D.C. to help develop an African-American museum for ...

KQED Public TV 9 is producing portraits of five Bay Area families to air alongside the American Family TV series. The Bay Area is home to the largest Afghan population in the United States. The ...

Pickens believed the President’s story had significant ties to the interracial history of his own family. He contacted the museum, and they confirmed that portraits of African American sitters from ...

One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...