Now, the concept really means: Pan Africanism.
Yeshitela Negro Racist Socialism.
BBC copycats BLM The 1619 Project again and again.
These women were known as the Grandassa Models (taken from the term ‘Grandassaland’, used to refer to Africa by Black Nationalist Carlos Cooks, whose teachings Kwame and his group followed). The fashion show was about more than just appearances however – it kick-started the Black is Beautiful movement that spanned the 1960s and ’70s. And it is now the name of a touring exhibition of Brathwaite’s work, currently on display at Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina.
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