Elombe Brath Foundation

06/11/2026

https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2026/06/11/jazzcultural-sunday-serenade-jazz-gallery-sistas-place/

Now celebrating its 47th anniversary, the month remains an opportunity to recognize Black music’s undeniable influence across the globe.

06/08/2026

Amina Baraka discusses difference between AFRO vs Natural and how many aspects of her Husbands creativity came from Elombe Brath & African Jazz Art Society & Studio

06/07/2026

Amina Baraka recalls the first AJASS imprint by Elombe Brath entitled Color Us Cullud and that Amiri Baraka was late on the Blackness scene

06/03/2026

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZD82JLpNgx/

05/31/2026

By Herb Boyd —

An ancient axiom declares that the “third time is charmed,” and thus it is so as I prepare to travel to Cuba. In 1961, when a delegation under the aegis of the Fair Play for Committee was formed, I was living in Brooklyn and working at the Atlas Brakes Company, my political development still months from maturation.

A second opportunity to venture to the island was aborted before it really began when a plan to slip into Cuba via boat from Jamaica was deemed unrealistic, given the turbulence of trade winds. What could have been a second chance happened in 1990, when a delegation that included Rosemari Mealy, Bill Sales, Assata Shakur, Elombe Brath, Kwame Ture, and Omowale Clay attended the “Malcolm X Speaks in the 90s Symposium” in Havana, May 18-25.

By Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News — An ancient axiom declares that the "third time is charmed," and thus it is so as I prepare to travel to Cuba. In 1961, when a delegation under the aegis of the Fair Play for Committee was formed, I was living in Brooklyn and working at the Atlas Brakes Compa...

05/12/2026

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2023 Interview clip of Amina Baraka discussing when Amiri Braka was not considered Black Enough with AJASS Curator courtesy of the Elombe Brath Foundation

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05/04/2026

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05/01/2026

Azim Thomas, the photographer, was the first familiar face, and after we embraced, he pulled me over to view his vast collection of photos. His prints covered nearly the 30 years I’ve known him. There were photos of the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jack Felder, and Morris Powell, two legendary street vendors, flutist Bobbi Humphrey, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, Elombe Brath, and a breathtaking array of Harlem’s notables.

It had been quite a while since I strolled along 125th Street in Harlem, but a recent warm spring afternoon was too hard to resist.

04/20/2026

We have a big announcement to make this month, that will be as surprising as when you all saw the Grandassa Models float during the African American Day Parade in 2018

04/09/2026

There is a bill in the House of Representatives of Congress that the Elombe Brath Foundation initiated see below
We hope the bill is finalized