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Homepage Photography Credits

All photography and graphics are credited to M. Billye Sankofa Waters, *unless noted otherwise.

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Uncle Dan and Nephew on front porch home @ 72nd and Dorchester. Chicago, 2019.

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Salmon

Fried salmon and a whole lot of other foods @ Uncle Jerry's House. LaMarque, Texas, 2017.

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Jump

"Binkey" Double Dutching @ Silver Room Block Party. Chicago, 2014.

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Three Generations 

Three generations of Rhodes’ ranging from 1860 –1933. Paducah, Kentucky c. 1936. The longest living member, Edythe (Rhodes) Peyton – far left – passed away in 2016, one month before her 92nd birthday. Billye’s father is nestled behind two of his brothers on the lower right side; he’s the one with the smiling eyes.

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150 Acres 

Original family home, built by Paw Paw, situated on 150 acres of land in Mississippi (image courtesy of Ruby).

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Apprentice 

Boy and Camera @ Silver Room Block Party. Chicago, 2014.

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Sunday's Best 

Cassandra (center) with paternal grandmother, great grandmother, and maternal great grandmother after her baptism at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Altadena, California, c. 1984 (image courtesy of Cassandra).

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Mural 

San Francisco mural featuring Hector's grandmother (image courtesy of Hector).

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Bones 

Tribe's paternal Grandfather and Friends playing dominos in the front yard @ 67th and Minerva. Chicago, 2018.

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Blue Line 

DJ Lady D @ Silver Room Block Party. Chicago, 2014.

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1890 

Billye's Paternal Great Grandparents, Henry and Easter, c. 1890. (image courtesy of Rhodes Family.)

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Bible 

Uncle Jerry's bible and pulpit @ Spiritual True Baptist Church. Galveston Island, Texas, 2015.

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