With BlackLivesMatter shirts peeking out from their three-piece suits and fists raised in the air, the demonstrators who poured down Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard towards Central Park were a sight to behold.
When stylist Gabriel M. Garmon initially put the call out on social media about a demonstration in remembrance of George Floyd, he had hopes that 100 or so other Black men might join him on the march through Harlem this past Thursday. The invitation encouraged participants to wear a suit, a shirt and tie, or “your best,” as a mark of respect to Floyd, whose funeral in Minneapolis would coincide with the event, a dress code that he felt his community of Black fashion creatives would appreciate.
With Black Lives Matter shirts peeking out from their three-piece suits and fists raised in the air, the demonstrators who poured down Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard towards Central Park were a sight to behold. Some came dressed in the sober black suiting reminiscent of Civil Rights activists of the1960s; others were decked out in vibrant ankara prints and the kind of modern bespoke tailoring you might find at local menswear boutiques such as Harlem Haberdashery.
As the march moved further along Fifth Avenue towards the final stop on 96th street, the crowd tripled in size, swelling to be over a 1000 strong. In the sea of hand-painted signs, many bore witness to the injustices suffered by members of the Black trans community at the hands of the police. “A lot of times when we say Black men are under attack, we’re mostly thinking about cis-gender, straight Black men.
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