May 1, 1970 - New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Boy gives raised fist salute as he and a friend sit on a statue in front of the New Haven County Courthouse during a demonstration of 15,000 people during the Bobby Seale / Ericka Huggins trial. Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party is on trial along with Ericka Huggins for murder. Both are acquitted.

1985 - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: Girl gives younger boy a cigarette in Lower Price Hill, a neighborhood of poor whites from Kentucky and West Virginia.

1971 - Belfast; Northern Ireland: Four boys in a Catholic neighborhood pose with syringes found on the ground.

2002 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: "Leaf Eyes" Boy with eyes that are much too old for his age at Sao Martinho, a program run by the Catholic Church for street children. Street kids are fed and can clean up at this drop-in center. Recreation is also offered. Counselors talk to them in an effort to get them off the street, but it is a difficult task. Many kids stay the day, then go to the favelas (slums) and purchase drugs. The world has an estimated 150 million street children—some as young as six-years-old. Estimates on the numbers of Brazilian street children vary from 200,000 to 8 million. In Brazil, a common cause is abandonment by poor families unable to feed all their children. Brazil with 170 million people is among countries with the highest absolute number of people living in poverty. Nearly half of the population earn less than $2 a day. Another major cause is AIDS. The death of parents, violence in the home, drug taking and alcoholism also force many children to the streets.

1981 - New York, New York, USA: 10 or 11-year-old boy sleeps on the subway, going home, after hustling on Times Square.

Summer, 1995 - Portland, Oregon, USA: Derrell (TR) hangs onto Zach Harris as they play basketball. Friends of the Children links “at-risk” first graders for twelve years with committed, full-time, community people who become extended family. Friends form intense mentoring relationships with “their” children. Their values oriented philosophy is: “What can we do if we set no limits.”

1984 - Anaheim, Orange County, California, USA: Jack Ruelas' friend points a cocked gun he takes to school to "protect myself from the gangs" at him, The friend said the gun was not loaded. Jack is the son of Mexican immigrants who work three jobs at Disneyland motels so he and his siblings could get a good education and have a better life. Jack is in a gang.

1976 - New York, New York, USA: "Pool Kiss". Teenage boy and girl kiss in the 26th Street Pool.

1998 - New York, New York, USA: Jordan & Paris Brignol walk home from Thompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side with their parents Alix & Tracy. Ethnicity: Haitian • Spanish • Cuban • African • Polish • German • Scottish

1972 - Palo Alto, Calironia, USA: Two women with bags of food at the People's Free Food Program, one of the Panther's survival programs.

1972 - Oakland, California, USA: Balck Panther Party medical team do Sickle cell anemia testing during Bobby Seale's campaign for mayor of Oakland.

1985 - Ventura, California, USA: Homeless, 11-year-old Kevin sleeps in the front seat of the family car. His13-year-old brother, Christopher, sleeps in the back. The Wallace family has been homeless for two years. They live at McGrath State Park on the beach. Families are allowed to camp for 14 days and then must leave for 24 hours. “This has not been an easy life on the kids,” says their mom, “The other kids call them hobos.”

July 28, 1968 - Oakland, California, USA: "Panthers on Parade" Panthers line up at a Free Huey rally in DeFremery Park, in west Oakland’s ghetto. Light skinned man is Gregory Harrison. His brother, Oleander, went to Sacramento with Bobby Seale.

1984 - Denver, Colorado, USA: "Shackles". The jailers of this 13-year-old first time offender consider him an escape risk. Therefore, he must wear leg shackles every time he walks from his minimum-security cottage to class. Taylor Cottage. Mount View School, a juvenile facility for first time offenders.

1972 - Oakland, California, USA: Teenage couple Candy and Anthony.

September 12, 2001 - New York, New York, USA: Putting the flag up at Ground Zero.

1987 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Stephen Hawking, world famous cosmologist, plays tag with his 8-year-old son, Timmy, on the parking lot next to their house. The two were going out for ice cream when Timmy made a face at his father. Hawking started chasing him in his wheelchair.

July 18, 1992 - Houston, Texas, USA: "Marlboro" Houston Police arrest 14-year-old teenager for selling drugs.

2001 - Indianapolis, Indiana, USA: Dashawn Williams feeds ice cream to his dad, Steve Dycus. Steve is in the Father Resource Program.

April 2, 1992 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: 12-year-old Kevin Heath's mother and sister view his body at his funeral at St. Phillip’s Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. Kevin was shot at 11:25 pm on March 25, 1992, while on the roof of a building with friends. He died hours later. His minister said, “Young black males are an endangered species. They ought to be in the National Geographic.”

1984 - Worland, Wyoming, USA: Teenage boy stares out the door of the solitary detention cell at Worland's Juvenile Facility. There are few violent youths in rural Wyoming. Most of the teens locked up here, would not be in jail in a larger city.

2001 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Teny Oded Gross bathes his 2-month-old son, John Alexander Gross.

1980 - New York, New York, USA: 15-year-old who hustles in Times Square emerges from the subway with a gun.

1985 - Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA: A church gave David and Kay enough money to stay in a motel with their children for a weekend. Homeless, this family’s precarious day to day existence frays their relationship and they quarrel, often in front of the children, who have no place else to go.

November 12, 1969 - Oakland, California, USA: Angela Davis, who was a Black Panthjer for six months, speaks at a Free Huey rally in Defremery Park.

May 7, 1970 - New York, New York, USA: Funeral on the Upper West Side for Jeffrey Miller, a student killed by National Guard at Kent State on May 4, 1970.

1981 - The Bronx, New York, USA: Teenage couple kisses on steps. (

Summer, 1995 - Costa Mesa, California, USA: Girls read and talk at Girls Inc’s summer camp. Girls Incorporated helps girls ages 9 to 18 avoid early sexual activity and pregnancy. National assessment showed a 50% drop in pregnancy rate and a significant delay in initiation of intercourse among young teens.

1985 - Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: Teenager jumps his bike over friends in Lower Price Hill, a community of southern whites. The 1980s saw the largest increase in child poverty since the 1960s. Outside the Dream put faces on the statistics—the 13 million poor children living in poverty — adrift in the richest nation in history. In the 1980s children constitute one half of all poor people in America. Today, as income inequality grows, poverty —especially child poverty — is again an issue.

1971 - Belfast, Northern Ireland: Catholic children burn a lorry truck during "the troubles".

1979 - New York, New York, USA: 11 or 12-year-old boy hustler on 7th Avenue in Times Square.

August, 1970 - Berkeley, California, USA: Black Panther Minister of Defense and co-founder Huey Newton listens to Bob Dylan’s record Highway 61 in his house shortly after his release from prison. Huey got used to being cold in prison. He feels too hot inside the house, so he takes off his shirt.

July 28, 1968 - Oakland, California, USA: Black Panther Chairman and co-founder Bobby Seale speaks at a Free Huey rally in Defermery Park (named by the Panthers Bobby Hutton Park) in West Oakland. Left of Seale is Bill Brent, who later went to Cuba. Right is Wilford Holiday, known as Captain Crutch.

1983 - Bronx, New York, New York, USA: A friend helps 15-year-old Del shoot heroin on the roof. Del has lived in an abandoned building since his mom died when he was 13.

1976 - Beirut, Lebanon: 11-year-old Maronite Christian child soldier during Lebanon's civil war.

July 24, 2008 - New York, New York, USA: Gustavo Ramirez drinks a milk shake with his 1-year-old son Jayson in Harlem.

1984 - Bronx, New York, USA: Boys jump into a public swimming pool at night. They climbed over the fence.

1973 - Oakland, California, USA: 15-year-old Timothy Pierce shoots pool.

2002 - Salvador, Bahia, Brazil: Mother holds her baby in a working class area by the beach.