text: "When you think about those different types of murders, and specifically, the one with George Floyd, it reminds us of Emmett Till and how that activated a great amount of the civil rights movement in the community to become more active in fighting for equality," Brathwaite said.
  A group of women from an AJASS-associated modeling group, which emulated the Grandassa models, pose outside a Harlem, N.Y., school. (Kwame Brathwaite/Philip Martin Gallery LA)
  "That was ultimately the foundation of the Black is Beautiful movement: it was accepting yourself [for] who you are, but then also we need to have equity. We need to have equality."