Model in 1972 Kwame Brathwaite Portrait Identified as Manasie Ree Horn

The photographer Kwame Brathwaite was best-known during his lifetime for his incisive portraits of the figures who made up the Black Power and civil rights movements, and now, the long-unknown subject of a 1972 photo taken by Brathwaite has been identified. The photo, which is part of the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection in […]

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