Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kwame Brathwaite. (Photo credit: Kwame Brathwaite Instagram) Jesse Williams, Alicia Keys, and Swizz Beatz to produce documentary ...

Black hair is history, identity, resistance, and self-expression all wrapped into one. Over the years, natural hair has gone from being policed and politicized to being boldly celebrated on red ...

FLINT, MI — Since Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, its recognition has continued to grow in Michigan and nationally too. The holiday is observed on June 19 because that’s the date in 1865 ...

Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Little known Harlem based photographer - freedom fighter and activist - Kwame Brathwaite took 500,000 ...

South Orange Middle School will present the 3rd annual “My Black is Beautiful! A Celebration of Black History through the Arts” at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 1 at 4 p.m ...

Coincides with a touring exhibition of Brathwaite's work May 2019 NMAF copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used ...

Long before the Met Gala celebrated Black style, before the natural hair movement of the 2010s championed kinks, coils, and curls, before policies like the CROWN Act, and before dark-skinned Black ...

Photographer to the greats, collaborator in African liberation movements and archivist of Harlem culture, Kwame Brathwaite’s impact on Black culture is undeniable. Yet his achievements went ...