Photographer Kwame Brathwaite, who helped popularize the "Black is Beautiful" movement of the 1960s, has died. From Nelson Mandela to Muhammad Ali and the so-called Grandassa Models, Brathwaite's ...

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Harlem, ca. 1966; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019). Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles. Kwame Brathwaite.

Black is Beautiful was the message sent by films, products and Soul Train. Black pride is highlighted in the afro hairstyle, the Black is Beautiful message in advertising campaigns, and in Don ...

Brathwaite’s images of the models became some of the most iconic of the Black Is Beautiful movement. Sikolo Brathwaite, c. 1968. Photograph by Kwame Brathwaite / Courtesy Philip Martin Gallery.

For centuries, society has relied on derogatory terms like “Aunt Jemima,” “blackie,” “Jezebel,” “ugly,” and “unattractive” to describe, degrade and diminish the black women based on her looks.  These ...

Over 40 large-scale color and black-and-white photographs in the exhibition document how Kwame Brathwaite helped change America's cultural and political landscape by combining art, music and politics.

“It’s the original Black Lives Matter," says executive producer Questlove of the title song of the new A&E documentary "James Brown: Say It Loud," which traces how the R&B legend became Soul ...

Procter & Gamble haircare brands My Black is Beautiful and Gold Series have announced a collaboration with Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” ...

ESSENCE.com staffers are constantly going back and forth about who we think is the most beautiful Black woman of all time. In honor of Black History Month, we decided it was the perfect time to ...