Black joy

Get into the groove with these epic pics of Harlem in the 1970s.

From teenage goth to ground-breaking Vogue cover model (with a hotline to world leaders), the supermodel tells her story in her own words

Then and now, the history of black people in Paris is a rich one.

I'm finding Black joy in lots of things, from a month-long walking meditation to vegan chef Tabitha Brown.

Portrait of Black women smiling. Celebrate Black womxn joy. Portrait by @deunivory #melanin #blackgirlmagic #smile

Performing double Dutch jump rope on Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C.; dining at a table spanning the iconic Charles Bridge in the Czech Republic; a couple draws firearms on protesters marching in a well-to-do St. Louis neighborhood. Here’s a look at 15 of the best photos of the week, selected by photo editors at The Washington Post.

Photographer Raphael Albert has opened up his archives and is sharing a collection of his awe-inspring photographs of black beauty pageants in the UK from the 1970s and 1980s. The beautiful images are being fetured at an Autograph ABP exhibit in London called "Miss Black and Beautiful."

Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara, known as Depara (1928–1997), was an Angolan-born photographer who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Depara purchased his first video camera to record his wedding in 1950; four years later, he was made official photographer to the Zairian singer Franco. In 1