(Article by Amanda Ong on southseattleemerald.com. Photo credit:
“The Eightfold Path is an anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of the Buddha. It traverses media, stories, cultures, and ideas. Johnson and coauthor Steven Barnes are both practicing Buddhists and have incorporated their beliefs into this series of Buddhist stories that intersect with science fiction and Afrofuturism…”
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(Article by Alyssa Shotwell on themarysue.com. Photo Credit: Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios 2018)
“Later this year, the highly anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, releases. This will likely mark another big surge in wider public excitement and shared fan art depicting elements of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism. Despite their similar origins and many cultural ties, these two genres within science fiction and speculative fiction tell very different stories…”
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Article by Njera Perkins on shadowandact.com. Photo credit: Maury Phillips.
“Actress Erika Alexander is on a mission to give Black creators their creative control back by way of the latest cryptocurrency innovation. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the newest form of cryptocurrency taking over the digital space, and Alexander is a true believer that they’re the game-changing tool that’s redefining art across literature, entertainment, music and more…”
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Article by Elizabeth Blair posted on npr.org. Photo credit: Regis and Kahran Bethencourt.
Tired of looking for family entertainment where diversity doesn’t feel like a token after-thought? Look no further.
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Article by Cassie Da Costa on vanityfair.com. Photo credit: Alice Arnold. Illustration by Quinton McMillan.
“The ground Octavia E. Butler covered in her 15 novels and two story collections is traceable—but you need time. In the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, when Butler published the bulk of her work, she, Samuel Delany, and Ursula K. Le Guin were the only significant science fiction authors attempting such ideologically ambitious stories within the genre, placing left-of-center national politics and local histories right at the core of their plots…”
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(Article by Spencer Connolly on screenrant.com. Artwork: Buckhead #1 Main Cover Art by George Kambadais)
“The mysterious small town of Buckhead in the Pacific Northwest is in for a science fiction adventure in the all-new limited series by BOOM! Studios! Afrofuturism is coming to a seemingly normal small town in the Pacific Northwest with the launch of an all-new series from BOOM! Studios called Buckhead. The aesthetic mixture of traditional African style and advanced technology is brought to life in this upcoming five-issue comic series. When a Nigerian immigrant family moves to the small town of Buckhead, it soon becomes evident that things in the surface-level sleepy town are not at all what they seem…”
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(Article by Lina Nasr El Hag Ali on dailymaverick.co.za.)
“The work of imagining alternate futures is also about imagining alternate pasts. Pasts in which Black and Indigenous people feature as more than just passive observers. It is about rewriting the narrative on agency and action and it is deeply political. Pay attention to the visions for the future put forward in today’s world by politicians, intellectuals and scientists: The development of technologies to sustain human life on other planets; new digital realities; the altering of human DNA. Who is this for?”
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(Article by Andrew Gans on playbill.com. Photo Credit:
“Tony winner Lillias White, who is currently playing Matron Mama Morton in the Broadway revival of Chicago, has joined the cast of the New Group’s world premiere production of Black No More. The new musical, inspired by George S. Schuyler’s 1931 Afrofuturist novel of the same name set during the Harlem Renaissance, will be presented January 11–February 27, 2022, at The Pershing Square Signature Center. Opening night is scheduled for February 8.”
Source: https://bit.ly/3CCJn4J
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(Article by Tina Charisma on graziadaily.co.uk.)
The Afrofuturist movement imagines an optimistic future for Black people. Tina Charisma explains why looking backwards is no longer enough… reclaiming Black history has come to involve the revival of Afrofuturism, where looking back isn’t enough. Instead, we can look forward into a future that exists beyond black trauma. Black stories do not always have to revolve around pain. Instead, culture and notions of Blackness can be redefined for the future.”
Source: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/afrofuturism/
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