Even today, I remember the slogan, set atop 11 beer mugs, type-written in bold white letters against a solid black background: “Black is beautiful. ...

And black entrepreneurs also continue to be inspired by the Black is Beautiful movement. Last year, Rihanna cited Kwame as an inspiration for the first collection of her luxury brand Fenty.

In 2017, My Black is Beautiful led the development of “The Talk,” a film that depicts conversations Black parents have with their children through the decades to prepare them for racial bias.

Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite Through Jan. 15, at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, Manhattan; (212) 873-3400 ; nyhistory.org. Seph Rodney is a ...

The most interesting criticism of “Black is Beautiful” comes from Toni Morrison. In the late 60s, around the same time as Brathwaite’s heyday of cultural production, Morrison was on the precipice of ...

My first exposure to Kwame Brathwaite’s work was in 2019 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston as part of an exhibit titled “Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography.” A black wall ...

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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 ...