How one Kwame Brathwaite photo captures the '60s 'Black Is Beautiful' movement
It was the summer of 1963 when photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured a protest over Wigs Parisian, a white-owned wig shop that opened on Harlem's 125th Street near the Apollo Theater. One moody black-and-white photo provided a glimpse into tensions over the ways black women wore their hair in...