Black Beauty Pageants of the 60s: 'A Political Statement'

This video was published on YouTube on July 28, 2016. 

London's Afro-Caribbean community set up beauty pageants of their own during the 1960s at a time when mainstream notions of beauty largely shunned dark skin and afro hairstyles. Dan Damon found out more from Renée Mussai, the curator of a new exhibition in London, featuring photographs by the mastermind behind the pageant, Raphael Albert.