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 work embraced Black power and beauty.
Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is BeautifulKwame Brathwaite/Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles / ApertureKwame Brathwaite: Black Is BeautifulInspired by Jamaican-born activist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite was deeply involved in Black culture and activism beginning in the 1950s – he and his brother Elombe Brath helped organize concerts at clubs in the Bronx and Harlem. Kwame photographed them. They helped createBorn Ronald Brathwaite in Harlem in 1938, his parents were from Barbados.
Brathwaite's series of photographs of Grandassaland Models was inspired by the term Grandassa, coined by Carlos Cooks, founder of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement. The idea was to inspire Black women to embrace their African heritage rather than try to emulate white women by straightening their hair.
"We said, 'We've got to do something to make the women feel proud of their hair, proud of their blackness,'" Brathwaite
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