(Event posted by Moon on meetup.com. Photo credit: Moon)
“Online Meet & Greet! Hey Black Sci-Fi fam, let’s connect for a casual online Meet & Greet to get to know one another, decide how often we’d like to meet and what books and authors (besides Octavia) we’d like to explore together. See you soon…”
Join the event: https://www.meetup.com/the-black-sci-fi-book-club/events/287354981/
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(Article by John-Baptiste Oduor posted on artreview.com. Photo credit: Kara Walker)
“The body of work loosely contained under the label of Afrofuturism exists within two radically distinct but conceptually overlapping timelines. The first encompasses the history of the United States but focuses its attention on slavery and its aftermath, traced all the way into the current century – the longue durée…”
Read the entire article: https://bit.ly/3Q6X3eo
#planetxnubiaphi #xnubiaphi #afrofuturism
(Article by editor on africa.com. Photo credit: editor)
“With a digital media platform that focuses on World Shapers, Afro-Futurism, Cultural Bridge Builders, and much more for 2022. Can you imagine the modern world without the influences of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell, Lewis Hamilton, or Sade? When we look at science and inventions, the contributions by people of color go wide and far from developing mathematics to architecture and much more especially from the continent of Africa…”
Read the entire article: https://bit.ly/3HQIWXX
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(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…”
Read the entire article: https://bit.ly/3NH45Wg
#xnubiaphi #afrofuturism
(Article by marjua estevez on yahoo.com)
“It’s a story about a young Dominican girl helping to fulfill her terminally ill grandmother’s dream of building a rocket ship to launch herself into space before her death,” Levis shared over Zoom. The film opens in 2041, present-day Encue, a planet identical to Earth discovered 64 years prior. It stars Elvis Nolasco (She’s Gotta Have It), Cindy De La Cruz, and Nadya Encarnacion and introduces Yolanda Nolasco as Mamá, a retired engineer and technologist who is hellbent on ushering in her inevitable death among the stars….”
Source: https://yhoo.it/3EIehcB
#afrofuturism #blackmusic #blackjesus #blackentrepreneur #blackfuturist #xnubiaphi #afrophysicist #afronaut #afroscientist #afrochemist #afrobotanist #afrotechnology #afroexplorer #afrohorticulturist #blackgenius #blackengineers #NSBE #afroengineers #blacktothefuture #darkmatter #darkscience #theblackvote #afropoliticians #blacksciencefiction #blackspeculativearts #blackownedbanks #blackblueprint #afrofuturistagenda #afrofuturistnews
“In Sun Ra’s Chicago, [author] William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to Chicago’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 Ra lived and relaunched his career from a leader of big-bands to a leader of the avant-garde. Sites, an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, recognized the importance of Ra’s early cities, Birmingham and Chicago, on his development and thinking. By exploring Ra’s urban sphere, Sites explains, ‘I hoped I might reveal things about those cities, about Black urban experience more generally, and about the deep and complex urban roots of Afrofuturism.'”
Source: https://ssa.uchicago.edu/ssa_magazine/sun-ras-chicago-afrofuturism-and-city
#afrofuturism #blackmusic #blackjesus #blackentrepreneur #blackfuturist #xnubiaphi #afrophysicist #afronaut #afroscientist #afrochemist #afrobotanist #afrotechnology #afroexplorer #afrohorticulturist #blackgenius #blackengineers #NSBE #afroengineers #blacktothefuture #darkmatter #darkscience #theblackvote #afropoliticians #blacksciencefiction #blackspeculativearts #blackownedbanks #blackblueprint #afrofuturistagenda #afrofuturistnews
“You could devote your entire life to exploring Sun Ra’s galaxy of music, art, and writing and never reach an end. During his 79 years on this particular planet, the interstellar bandleader was a perpetual motion machine of creativity, releasing countless records, touring constantly, and penning works of Afrofuturist poetry and philosophy. Ra’s universe is still expanding, more than a quarter-century after he left this earthly plane; there’s a seemingly never-ending flow of releases and rediscoveries, and the Sun Ra Arkestra, still an ongoing concern under the direction of saxophonist Marshall Allen, will release its first album since 1999 this month.”
Source: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/a-guide-to-sun-ra-on-film/
#afrofuturism #blackmusic #blackjesus #blackentrepreneur #blackfuturist #xnubiaphi #afrophysicist #afronaut #afroscientist #afrochemist #afrobotanist #afrotechnology #afroexplorer #afrohorticulturist #blackgenius #blackengineers #NSBE #afroengineers #blacktothefuture #darkmatter #darkscience #theblackvote #afropoliticians #blacksciencefiction #blackspeculativearts #blackownedbanks #blackblueprint #afrofuturistagenda #afrofuturistnews
“High school best friends and science prodigies C.J. and Sebastian spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpacks that enable time travel. But when C.J.’s older brother Calvin dies after an encounter with police officers, the young duo decide to put their unfinished tech to use in a desperate bid to save Calvin.”
Source: http://bit.ly/see-you-yesterday
Afrofuturistically Amazing! This is for all of us Blerds, Bleeks, and Bleirdos. The future is yesterday. Black to the Future!
#afrofuturism #blackmusic #blackjesus #blackentrepreneur #blackfuturist #xnubiaphi #afrophysicist #afronaut #afroscientist #afrochemist #afrobotanist #afrotechnology #afroexplorer #afrohorticulturist #blackgenius #blackengineers #NSBE #afroengineers #blacktothefuture #darkmatter #darkscience #theblackvote #afropoliticians #blacksciencefiction #blackspeculativearts #blackownedbanks #blackblueprint #afrofuturistagenda