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The Black novelist history forgot | The Washington Post

September 3, 2017September 3, 2017African American History, African American Literature ...

Everything changed for Himes with the publication of “If He Hollers Let Him Go” in 1945.

Ava DuVernay Is Developing Octavia Butler’s ‘Dawn’ Into a Television Series | OkayAfrica

August 11, 2017August 12, 2017African American Cinema, African American Literature ...

With HBOs recent announcement of the controversial upcoming drama, Confederate, and Will Packer‘s upcoming Amazon series, Black America, there’s no doubt that the genre of speculative fiction is experiencing a major resurgence.

Comic Books, in Black and White | The New York Times

August 3, 2017August 3, 2017#BuyBlack, African American Literature ...

The comic, developed by the writer Kwanza Osajyefo and the designer Tim Smith 3 after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year, was designed to tell a story that reflected their lives and helped fill a void, they said.

The Butler Effect: How Octavia Butler Changed My Life | OkayAfrice

July 31, 2017July 31, 2017African American Literature, African Women ...

After Wild Seed, I devoured every Octavia E. Butler book our library had – perhaps why it didn’t strongly register that so few of the books I read for school were about black people.

NextGen: Black Quantum Futurism Is a Women-Led Incubator Rooted In Black Liberation | OkayAfrica

July 27, 2017July 27, 2017African American Literature, African American News ...

DIASPORA—Over the course of July we’ll be publishing short profiles, essays and interviews on the theme of “Afrofutures.” Together these stories will be a deep dive into the way African and diaspora thinkers, technologists and artists view a future for Africans in the world and outside of it.

3 Alternative History Timelines That Are Way Better Than ‘Confederate’ | OkayAfrica

July 25, 2017African American Literature, Black Novelist ...

DIASPORA—I am almost certain that HBO and its artistic partners, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, creators of the hit series Game of Thrones did not predict the backlash that has accompanied the announcement of their new project, Confederate—a series, which according to the press release, “takes place in an alternative timeline where the southern states have successfully seceded from the Union, giving rise to a nation in which slavery remains legal and has evolved into a modern institution.”

Barry Jenkins Sets James Baldwin Adaptation ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ As First Post-‘Moonlight’ Feature | Indie Wire

July 11, 2017September 13, 2018African American Film, African American History ...

The very busy filmmaker has finally announced his first film project after his historic Oscar win.

James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Toward the FBI and Others Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Atlanta Black Star

June 29, 2017African American History, African American Literature ...

One of the many paradoxes of American society is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become both destroyer and archivists of 20th-century American radicalism.

Afrofuturism: Imagining an Afrocentric Future – ThoughtCo

June 28, 2017African American Literature, Black Literature ...

Rejecting Eurocentric Dominance and Normalization

What I Learned About Love from Rereading ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ – PBS

June 9, 2017African American History, African American Literature ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Though the book is currently hailed as one of the most important in American literature, its initial reception wasn’t completely rosy.