painting by brother Boko depicting the assassination of Carl B. Hampton (People’s Party II / Black Panther Party) on July 26, 1970 in Houston, TX. dedication: “Best wishes, to sister Jackie. Boko / 2013”
A Charity & Costume Ball
Extraterrestriality thereby becomes a point of transvaluation through which this variation over time, understood as forcible mutation, can become a resource for speculation. It should be understood not so much as escapism, but rather as an identification with the potentiality of space and distance within the high-pressure zone of perpetual racial hostility.
It is not that black subjectivities are waiting for science-fiction authors to articulate their lifeworlds. Rather, it is the reverse. The conventions of science fiction, marginalized within literature yet central to modern thought, can function as allegories for the systemic experience of post-slavery black subjects in the twentieth century. Science fiction, as such, is recast in the light of Afrodiasporic history.
Afrofuturism therefore stages a series of enigmatic returns to the constitutive trauma of slavery in the light of science fiction. Isolating the enigmatic phrase “Apocalypse bin in effect” from the 1992 Public Enemy track “Welcome to the Terradome,” Mark Sinker’s 1992 essay “Loving the Alien” argued that this lyric could be interpreted to read that slavery functioned as an apocalypse experienced as equivalent to alien abduction: “The ships landed long ago: they already laid waste whole societies, abducted and genetically altered swathes of citizenry… . Africa and America—and so by extension Europe and Asia—are already in their various ways Alien Nation.”
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Stop fuckin’ with me!
^^I love how he only says it once.
Welcome to Erika Alexander's Web Site
“So this studio head says to me ‘Black people don’t like science fiction.’ I said thanks and goodbye. When my husband and I left that meeting, we were mad. This (white) executive was telling me, a major sci-fi geek, and my husband Tony, a pioneering black sci-fi screenwriter (he wrote Eraser), what we and people like us did and did not like. We got mad, and then we got down to work. Along with my brother Robert, we created Concrete Park, a sci-fi story full of people of color.
-Erika Alexander from Showbiz Is Glamorous
Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
(Photo: Intel)
Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.
Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Remember this brown girl.
Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr
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Erykah Badu & Janelle Monáe Introduce 2013 Billboard Icon Award Honoree: Prince
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Maybe we can finally get rid of that BBC stock image of ‘veils of Muslim world’.
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So at one point Captain Kirk has to send the current navigator off to do something in another part of the ship and he says, “Lieutenant Uhura, take over navigation,” and she just does and it is no big thing. So to anyone out there who ever said that Uhura was only a glorified phone operator, SHE CAN TOTALLY FLY THE SHIP SO THERE.
(image from TrekCore)
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A group of Mississippi Valley State University students protest the decision by then-President James Herbert White to expel all students who were involved in protesting civil injustice and curriculum issues (specifically the lack of a Black Studies program). The students believed that the president was merely catering to the wishes of powerful whites.
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Protecting Black Girl Genius: Space Camp Scholarship Replaces Punishment for Kiera Wilmot.
Read her good news here —> http://wapo.st/117aDhh
110 Detroit-area HS students getting paid summer internships as members of GM Student Corps
Students will work in teams of 10 to develop, implement service projects
General Motors has hired 110 Detroit-area high school students for paid summer internships.
They’re members of the GM Student Corps, a program being introduced Monday by GM North America President Mark Reuss that combines service, education and mentoring.
The students will work in teams of 10 to develop and implement service projects in Detroit-area neighborhoods.
Helping to train and mentor them will be 60 GM retirees and 12 GM student interns from the University of Detroit Mercy.GM will pay for the student projects and provide Chevrolet Express vans and Chevrolet Silverado full-size pickups so adult mentors can transport materials and students to project sites and life skills classes.
The teams are currently planning their projects. Work is scheduled to begin in mid-June and conclude in August.
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(Source: posttragicmulatto, via positiveblacknews)
Boycott Monsanto: A Simple List of Companies to Avoid
That’s damn near my whole cabinet
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Calling all Afro-Futurist visionaries! Submit your artwork to win £100 prize - The Horizon Venture: NTS Radio promo
THE HORIZON VENTURE: Tales of interplanetary diaspora, told through music, video, and drama.
Sci-fi short stories based on historical truths
Call for submissions for The Horizon Venture
Submit your artwork for a chance to win £100
And have your work featured
In a live show
And in a graphic novel
info at http://vimeo.com/66059044
IDing War Victims
Libyan scientists will use DNA sequences to identify victims of the country’s recent revolution.
http://bit.ly/18vKA7Z
