The work of legendary photographer Kwame Brathwaite helped launch and popularize one of the most influential cultural movements of the 1960s, known as the “Black Is Beautiful” movement. Brathwaite’s ...

Kwame Brathwaite. Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece designed by Carolee Prince. AJASS, Harlem, 1968. (Courtesy of the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles) LOS ANGELES — Black is ...

Jun. 30—The photographer Leysis Quesada Vera created an oasis in a Cuban barrio. The ephemeral beauty of movement, immortalized for eternity in a static image, leaps from the color prints of her two ...

At first glance, one might struggle to find a connection between the vivid photographic works of celebrated fashion, sports, and fitness photographer Mitchel Gray and the emotionally raw paintings by ...

In 1965, Martin Luther King told photographer James “Spider” Martin, “we could have marched, we could have protested forever, but if it weren’t for guys like you, it would have been for nothing. The ...

Our Streets is a column by writer and reporter Ray Levy Uyeda that highlights activists, artists, and organizers who are doing the work and reclaiming power for the people. The images from protests ...

Kwame Brathwaite, the pioneering activist and photographer whose work helped define the aesthetics of the “Black is Beautiful” movement of the 1960s and beyond, died on April 1, aged 85. His son, ...

A Massachusetts photographer is taking family photos to benefit a local charity. A photographer from Needham, Massachusetts, teamed up with a friend to help her community during the COVID-19 outbreak, ...

On a recent trip to Israel, I spent some time in the old city of Jerusalem, watching people take photos. It was, on the whole, a fascinating spectacle, one that reminded me of dogs marking their ...