Kente cloth patterns also can be seen on ties, scarves, backpacks, book covers, pillows, bedspreads . . . even shower curtains. It would be no exaggeration to say that this richly textured fabric, ...

paddled two foot-treadles and worked school-bus yellow thread into a kente cloth pattern last week, onlookers around him marveling. This art had been his full-time trade in his native village of ...

Kente cloth is more than mere fashion, Embil and Kusimba said. It is a canvas upon which centuries of African people have told their stories. It can show rank or prestige.

Kente-cloth patterns can also be seen on ties, scarves, backpacks, book covers, pillows, bedspreads . . . even shower ** curtains. It would be no exaggeration to say that this richly textured ...

The Ypsilanti District Library is currently displaying "Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity." The traveling exhibit has been made possible through "NEH on the Road" - a ...

In addition to kente cloth, members wore round red pins with the name “Recy” as a tribute to 97-year-old Recy Taylor of Alabama, who survived a gang rape by six white men in 1944 and never saw ...

There was Kente cloth for Africa, there was black for #MeToo and white for, well no one is quite sure. Members of Congress and the first family wore various colors and items to tonight's State of ...

Congressional Democrats wore stoles made of Kente cloth during a moment of silence for George Floyd, drawing criticism from observers who felt they made the traditional African textile into a ...

Democrats Rock Kente Cloth On Capitol Hill & Black Twitter Has Questions Speaker Pelosi and dem took a knee for George Floyd but got some side-eye for their African accessories.

Kente cloth originated in present-day Ghana, and has served as a pan-african symbol worn by Black Americans throughout history. From Black college students donning kente cloth stoles at graduation ...

Some wear it as a badge of honor, others because the distinctive colors and geometric prints are just plain good looking.Then there are those for whom kente fills both bills.Kente – say KEHN-tay ...

Democrats mocked for wearing kente cloth at police reform press conference. Democrats show united front in introducing bill, but some say their attire missed the mark ...