*March is Women’s History Month. And one family demonstrated a creative and educational way to honor black women and teach their child about them at the same time.
Photographer Marc Bushelle and his computer-programmer wife, Janine Harper dressed and posed their 5-year old daughter Lily as extraordinary women such as Toni Morrison, Grace Jones, and astronaut Mae Jemison. The stunning results, posted on Bushelle’s Facebook Facebook page, has been “Liked” by hundreds and is getting comments that define the images as “inspiring.”
“We try to come up with ideas together as a family,” Bushelle tells Yahoo Parenting of choosing the subjects of their portrait sessions at home in his Brooklyn, New York studio. “Then we have a discussion about the heroine we’re going to cover. We often show Lily video of the woman, too, and do a bit of reading on her together. So it’s not just us teaching Lily — we’re sharing in the learning, too.”
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