‘Hang Up The Kente’: Black Writers, Performers Slam Congressional Democrats For Wearing Traditional Textile
TOPLINE Congressional Democrats on Monday unveiled a sweeping police reform bill created in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing—but, before doing so, took a knee in memory of Floyd and other black people who died during police interactions while wearing kente cloth, a traditional patterned textile from Ghana—eliciting backlash from black writers and performers. House […]