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Braving the Days: Black Memory by Jordannah Elizabeth
This is my space to write what comes to me. What comes to me are memories. But what’s most important to understand about the Black memory and the Black mind is that when a movement begins, our lives are not brought to a dramatic halt which immediately morphs into an all encompassing need to overthrow…
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Book Review: “Retelling of History Fused with Afrofuturism in Sasha Banks’ america, MINE” by Maya Williams
Sasha Banks’ poetry collection america, MINE is not just an important retelling of ghosts and ancestors of our past in the scope of African American history; it is a premonition of what is to come in Black people’s future. It completely delivers beyond what is expected in a debut poetry book. In the opening of…
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{EIC Reading Recommendation} Afrofuturists: Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales) by Rasheedah Phillips
The future is now. So, there’s no better time to delve into afrofuturist writing and literary explorations. “Afrofuturism is not only a subgenre of science fiction. It is a larger aesthetic mode that encompasses a diverse range of artists working in different genres and media who are united by their shared interest in projecting black…