PLEBEAIN PRINTS GAIN THEIR LETTERS OF NOBILITY

WAX IS WORN THROUGHOUT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND OUTSIDE IT BY AFRICANS ALMOST ALONE...

Who are usually working-class immigrants.

StreetPress

A cook in a soup kitchen

Entrée to Black Paris

A woman presumably from the middle class 

So its discovery by the powers-that-be...

In Saint-Germain des Près, known for its galleries of contemporary art (in 2020)

At the Louvre (in 2023)

Is yet another sign that 

 innovation often comes from below,

like blue jeans, jazz and comedy.

At la Goutte d'Or

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