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Kwame Brathwaite
Kwame Brathwaite (January 1, 1938 – April 1, 2023) was an American photojournalist and activist known for popularizing the phrase "Black is Beautiful" and documenting life and culture in Harlem and Africa. Life and work Born Gilbert Ronald Brathwaite in Brooklyn on January 1, 1938 and brought up in the South Bronx, to immigrant parents from Barbados, who chronicled the cultural, political, and social developments of Harlem, Africa, and the African diaspora. As a boy in the early 1950s, he was enrolled at School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design). He adopted the name Kwame in the early 1960s, a tribute to Kwame Nkrumah, the first leader of post-colonial Ghana. With his older brother Elombe Brath, Brathwaite founded the African Jazz Art Society and Studios in 1956 and Grandassa Models in 1962. In 2021, the Pérez Art Museum Miami acquired "Untitled (AJASS Model on Black Background)” (1970s/2019)," portraying a female model figure dressed in pattern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elombe Brath
Cecil Elombe Brath (September 30, 1936 – May 19, 2014)"Who Was Elombe Brath?" , Elombe Brath Foundation. was a activist, born in of Barbadian heritage, who is best known for founding the Patrice Lumumba Coalition. He was an influential activist, recognized by as the "Dean of Harlem Nationalists" and by |
Black Is Beautiful
Black is beautiful is a cultural movement that was started in the United States in the 1960s by African Americans. It later spread beyond the United States, most prominently in the writings of the Black Consciousness Movement of Steve Biko in South Africa. Black is beautiful got its roots from the '' Négritude'' movement of the 1930s. Negritude argued for the importance of a Pan-African racial identity among people of African descent worldwide. It aims to dispel the racist notion that black people's natural features such as skin color, facial features and hair are inherently ugly. John Rock was long thought to be the first person to coin the phrase "black is beautiful"—during a speech in 1858—but historical records indicate that he never actually used the specific phrase on that day. The movement also encouraged men and women to stop trying to eliminate African-identified traits by and attempting to lighten or bleach their skin. Bill Allen, a freelance writer for adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |