On June 8, Democratic members of Congress wearing kente cloths and face masks knelt in Emancipation Hall to memorialize Black lives lost to police brutality. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Democratic lawmakers were draped in scarves made from a cloth of colourful geometric Ghanaian designs called kente. It turned ...

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 ...

We are here to honor George Floyd,” Pelosi, rocking a kente cloth mask and scarf, said before the nearly nine-minute moment of silence began. They kneeled on the ground to mark the amount of ...

Despite the significance of the legislation proposed by lawmakers, the moment of silence was derided by many on social media because they wore African kente cloth scarves. Many found the piece of ...

Wreh created the 55 scarves at the request of Congresswoman ... who explained that woven kente cloths originated in Ghana and are normally worn by royalty. “I was more excited to be there ...

A kente cloth scarf or tie is often used to spice up a basic black business suit. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, for example, often wears braids in a conservative French roll, appropriate for White ...

Our hosts break down Congressional Democrats kneeling for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while wearing African Kente cloth scarves, during the introduction of the Justice in Policing Act. Our hosts ...

A USA Today fact check ruled that the kente cloth sashes Democratic lawmakers wore to honor George Floyd “were historically worn by [the] empire involved in West African slave trade.” ...

The shop is a mecca for authentic kente cloth, as well as the copies ... the same time – one to throw over their shoulder like a scarf,” says Deborah Dodi. Some local kente prints include ...

Participants of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s wore kente cloth hats and scarves while protesting on the street, and in later years during hip-hop’s political rebellion, entertainers ...