Episode 12: The Grandassa Models: Ambassadors of the Black is Beautiful Movement with Cinque Brathwaite - Part I

In the season premiere, Taniqua chats with Cinque Brathwaite, the co-founder and president of the Elombe Brath Foundation. Cinque talks about how the African Jazz Art Society and Studio birthed the Black is Beautiful Movement and the Grandassa models, a group that changed the standards of beauty for an entire community and became the inspiration behind the first drop of Rihanna's Fenty collection.

Sources/Further Reading:

Elombe Brath Foundation

Kwame Brathwaite

The Grandassa Models

Website

Instagram

Fashion and Consciousness

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