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Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful wide leg pants a striking open back withIn the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the political slogan Black Is Beautiful. This monographthe first ever dedicated to Brathwaites remarkable careertells the story of a key, but under recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. Inspired by the writings of activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, Brathwaite, along with his older brother, Elombe Brath, founded the African Jazz