BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044709440 DTSTART:20230207T180000Z DTEND:20230207T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044711489 DTSTART:20230208T180000Z DTEND:20230208T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044713538 DTSTART:20230209T180000Z DTEND:20230209T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044715587 DTSTART:20230210T180000Z DTEND:20230210T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044717636 DTSTART:20230211T180000Z DTEND:20230211T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044719685 DTSTART:20230214T180000Z DTEND:20230214T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044721734 DTSTART:20230215T180000Z DTEND:20230215T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044724807 DTSTART:20230216T180000Z DTEND:20230216T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044726856 DTSTART:20230217T180000Z DTEND:20230217T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044728905 DTSTART:20230218T180000Z DTEND:20230218T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044730954 DTSTART:20230221T180000Z DTEND:20230221T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044733003 DTSTART:20230222T180000Z DTEND:20230222T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044735052 DTSTART:20230223T180000Z DTEND:20230223T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044737101 DTSTART:20230224T180000Z DTEND:20230224T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044739150 DTSTART:20230225T180000Z DTEND:20230225T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044741199 DTSTART:20230227T180000Z DTEND:20230227T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044743248 DTSTART:20230228T180000Z DTEND:20230228T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044745297 DTSTART:20230301T180000Z DTEND:20230301T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044747346 DTSTART:20230302T180000Z DTEND:20230302T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044749395 DTSTART:20230303T180000Z DTEND:20230303T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044751444 DTSTART:20230304T180000Z DTEND:20230304T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044753493 DTSTART:20230306T180000Z DTEND:20230306T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044755542 DTSTART:20230307T180000Z DTEND:20230307T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044757591 DTSTART:20230308T180000Z DTEND:20230308T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044759640 DTSTART:20230309T180000Z DTEND:20230309T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044761689 DTSTART:20230310T180000Z DTEND:20230310T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044763738 DTSTART:20230311T180000Z DTEND:20230311T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044766811 DTSTART:20230313T170000Z DTEND:20230313T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044768860 DTSTART:20230314T170000Z DTEND:20230314T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044769885 DTSTART:20230315T170000Z DTEND:20230315T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044776030 DTSTART:20230316T170000Z DTEND:20230316T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044779103 DTSTART:20230317T170000Z DTEND:20230317T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044781152 DTSTART:20230318T170000Z DTEND:20230318T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044783201 DTSTART:20230320T170000Z DTEND:20230320T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044785250 DTSTART:20230321T170000Z DTEND:20230321T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044787299 DTSTART:20230322T170000Z DTEND:20230322T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044789348 DTSTART:20230323T170000Z DTEND:20230323T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044791397 DTSTART:20230324T170000Z DTEND:20230324T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T191312Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41801044794470 DTSTART:20230325T170000Z DTEND:20230325T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Known as the “keeper of the images\,” Kwame Brathwaite depl oyed his photography from the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s as an ag ent of social change. Born in Brooklyn to a Caribbean American family and raised in the Bronx\, Brathwaite traces his artistic and political sensibi lities to his youth. After seeing the horrific images of Emmett Till publi shed in Jet magazine in 1955\, Brathwaite and his brother Elombe Brath tur ned to art and political activism\, absorbing the ideas of the Jamaican-bo rn activist Marcus Garvey\, who promoted a Pan-Africanist vision for black economic liberation and freedom.\n\nKwame and Elombe founded the African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS)\, a collective of artists and creatives that organized jazz concerts in clubs around Harlem and the Bronx\, featu ring luminaries such as Miles Davis\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Max Roach. In ad dition to promoting musical events\, the group advanced a message of econo mic empowerment and political consciousness in the Harlem community\, emph asizing the power of self-presentation and style. “Think Black\, Buy Bla ck” became a rallying cry. In the 1960s\, Brathwaite and his collective also sought to address how white conceptions of beauty and body image affe cted black women. To do so they popularized the transformative idea “Bla ck Is Beautiful” and founded the Grandassa Models\, a modeling troupe of locally cast women who appeared in annual fashion shows at Harlem’s Apo llo Theater.\n\nThis exhibition is organized by Aperture\, New York and Kw ame S. Brathwaite. It is curated by Kwame S. Brathwaite and Michael Famigh etti.\n\nThe exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brath waite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible\, in par t\, by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the P hotographic Arts Council Los Angeles.\n\nThe Abroms-Engel Institute for th e Visual Arts presentation is organized by Tina Ruggieri\, Assistant Curat or. GEO:33.4968;-86.80707 LOCATION:Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts SUMMARY:Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uab.edu/event/aeiva_presents_kwame_brathwait e_black_is_beautiful END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR