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A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Day 6 Why the decades-old Black is Beautiful movement resonates so strongly today Photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured key moments in the Black is Beautiful movement, which pushed back against European beauty standards but was also an important element of Civil Rights and Black Power activism.

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Then it became a regular event. All was not easy, however. The day after the pageant, the winning model of the beauty contest showed up to claim her prize with straightened hair — far different from the night before. And this was as they were starting to discover who they were going to be as individuals. While competitors had to wear their hair naturally to take part, members of AJASS noticed that the winners would often return to straightening their hair once the competition was over, because they had to in order to go back to work.

As a group, they felt they needed to do something to change the relationship between black people and their hair, which is how the Grandassa Models, who willingly kept their hair natural year round, were formed. And, as more Naturally events occurred, and the more musicians such as Nina Simone were seen with similar looks, the more afros were normalised. Today, black beauty and style is still extensively explored by black photographers, as made clear by the recent book The New Black Vanguard , which highlights 15 emerging and established contemporary black photographers in fashion who are striving to make the industry more inclusive.

We understand each other's stories, and how people would like to be represented or depicted. And black entrepreneurs also continue to be inspired by the Black is Beautiful movement.