Clothing as message. Fashion and style as tools, signifiers of culture and identity, whether intentional or assumed. There’s ...

But it has never been a one-way message. Debates over the clothes Black men wear and how they wear them have at times turned into a form of cultural and literal policing, like when a young Black ...

Wearing purple and the accompanying “Liberty to Slaves ... and articulated the tenets of the movement to news reporters at ...

NEW YORK – Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: What one wore as a Black man mattered. Wesley’s pastor father, who migrated ...

Dapper Dan, a fashion icon in Harlem who grew up underprivileged, said dressing up in clothes ... a men’s version of couture.