Part of the ‘Black is beautiful’ movement during the civil rights era, he trained his camera on athletes, musicians and models as well as everyday people.
Kwame Brathwaite's visceral, often elegiac pictures of cultural figures like Muhammad Ali and James Brown, along with Black fashion models and ordinary citizens, were hailed as a catalyst of the “Black is beautiful” movement of the 1960s and beyond.
The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&B group that became one of the most renowned and influential acts of the 20th century. The group was formed in Chicago in the 1940s by patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples and his children Cleotha, Pervis, and Mavis. Over the years, the group's lineup would shift, with