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Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story(2025)

Name: Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-10-09

1h 38m2025-10-09

Documentary

Overview

Everyone knows the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” but few know of the man who helped popularize it. Little known Harlem based photographer - freedom fighter and activist - Kwame Brathwaite took 500,000 photos across his 70-year career, always devoted to celebrating the joy and beauty of African American life. This feature documentary tells the story of Kwame and the “Black is Beautiful” movement.

Director:: Yemi Bamiro
Writers:: Yemi Bamiro, Otto Burnham
Producers:: Ian Bonhôte, Joanna Boateng, Andrew Calof
Cinematographer:: Jean-Louis Schuller
Composer:: Kwes
Production:: Misfits Entertainment, The Creative Coalition, Wayfarer Studios, The Kwame Brathwaite Archive
Status:: Released