Not since the Oscar-winning Summer of Soul has a documentary shed light on untold Black history quite like Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story. The true origin of “Black Is Beautiful”—the 1960s sociocultural slogan and self-love movement that encouraged appreciation of African-American features and hair textures—eluded many at first. The National Museum of African American History hadn’t attributed the Black Is Beautiful origin to Brathwaite when it first opened, that is, until the family enlightened them for a well-earned update.

Directed by Yemi Bamiro, Black Is Beautiful walks viewers through the life and times of the late Bronx-raised photographer Kwame Brathwaite, including his birthing of the Black Is Beautiful movement through the founding of AJASS (the African Jazz-Art

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