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Kwame Brathwaite Exhibition, Black is Beautiful

Culture · Wednesday, October 28 · 13:30 · Gentilly

1 Rue de la Div du General Leclerc, 94250 Gentilly, France

Exhibition Kwame Brathwaite, Black is Beautiful running from 18 September 2026 to 14 March 2027 Kwame Brathwaite played a major role in popularizing the slogan 'Black is Beautiful' in the 1960s. He co-founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), which helped valorize autonomous Black aesthetics and militant. Brathwaite notably used photography to represent the Black body freely and positively, celebrating skin color and Afro-American cultural identity, heavily influenced by Afro-American music, notably the…