August 11, 2017August 12, 2017 Ava DuVernay Is Developing Octavia Butler’s ‘Dawn’ Into a Television Series | OkayAfrica 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. African American Cinema, African American Literature, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
August 3, 2017August 3, 2017 Comic Books, in Black and White | The New York Times 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. #BuyBlack, African American Literature, Comics, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 31, 2017July 31, 2017 The Butler Effect: How Octavia Butler Changed My Life | OkayAfrice 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. African American Literature, African Women, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 NextGen: Black Quantum Futurism Is a Women-Led Incubator Rooted In Black Liberation | OkayAfrica 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. African American Literature, African American News, Black Literature, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 25, 2017 3 Alternative History Timelines That Are Way Better Than ‘Confederate’ | OkayAfrica 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.” African American Literature, Black Novelist, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
July 11, 2017 Barry Jenkins Sets James Baldwin Adaptation ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ As First Post-‘Moonlight’ Feature | Indie Wire The very busy filmmaker has finally announced his first film project after his historic Oscar win. African American Film, African American History, African American Literature, Black History, Black Literature, Black Novelist, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
June 29, 2017 James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Toward the FBI and Others Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Atlanta Black Star 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. African American History, African American Literature, Black History, James Baldwin, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
June 28, 2017 Afrofuturism: Imagining an Afrocentric Future – ThoughtCo Rejecting Eurocentric Dominance and Normalization African American Literature, Black Literature, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
June 9, 2017 What I Learned About Love from Rereading ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ – PBS 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. African American History, African American Literature, Black History, Black Literature, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
June 2, 2017 African American Women Writers – ThoughtCo African American women writers have helped to bring the black woman's experience to life for millions of readers. They've written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, what 20th and 21st century America have been like for black women. African American History, African American Literature, Black History, KOLUMN, KOLUMN Magazine
