Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story (2025)

Yemi Bamiro · 98 min · Letterboxd ↗

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.

Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story screens once in London: BFI Southbank, Friday 11 September at 20:25.