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If You Love Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ Here Are More Movies, TV Shows To Watch
If Sinners had you on the edge of your seat, then these movies and shows might be the right fit for you
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Octavia Butler’s 1993 Novel Predicted The LA Fires …And Trump
Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, ” a speculative novel predicted the hell that’s 2025.
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Stop Making Black Kids Read These Old-Timey Books. Consider These Black Books Instead
Give your kids’ reading list an upgrade with these titles instead
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‘How to Die Alone,’ ‘Bel-Air’ and Other Black Shows That Got Canceled Too Soon
With fan-favorite shows off the air, like ‘Unprisoned’ and ‘Black Cake’, let’s take a look back at a handful of shows that were gone too soon.
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PageTurners: ‘Double Consciousness’ and Dual Paths of Persistence at the Forefront of Black Literature
An 800-page love letter dedicated to W.E.B. Du Bois stands in stark contrast to a graphic novel about Rep. John Lewis and a dozen other divergent literary tales
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Yes, a Black Woman Is Directing Film Adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower—Which Is Timely and Relevant AF
Garrett Bradley (Time, Naomi Osaka) will helm the film based on the novel addressing climate change and social inequality.
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It Took Nearly 50 Years, but This Week, Octavia Butler Made the New York Times Best Sellers' List
“I write bestselling novels,” Octavia Butler wrote on the inside cover of a notebook in 1988. 32 years later, that affirmation has come to pass. As reported by LitHub, on Wednesday, Butler’s agent, Merrilee Heifetz, tweeted that the author’s 1993 novel, Parable of the Sower, had made it onto the New York Times Best Sellers’…
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Parable of the Songwriter: Toshi Reagon Explains Why an Octavia Butler-Inspired Opera Is More Relevant Than Ever
When Octavia Butler published Parable of Sower in 1993, she fictionally forecasted the year 2024 as a dystopia under immoral and ignorant leadership, wracked by climate change and corporate and political avarice. In Butler’s vision of America, our so-called civilized society buckles under unbearable wealth inequality, a lack of basic resources like clean water and…
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Ava DuVernay and Victoria Mahoney to Adapt Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn for Television
If you’ve been waiting for Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi to make it to television, Ava DuVernay and Victoria Mahoney have teamed up to bring Butler’s Dawn to television sets across the country. Dawn tells the story of a black woman working side by side with aliens to revive the human race 250 years after a…
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Watch: Black Women Dive Headfirst Into the Future With Virtual Reality Project
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism is an art installation and virtual reality experience recently featured at the Tribeca Film Festival. The project, which seeks to put women of color in the virtual reality space, was created by Hyphen-Labs, a collective of women from diverse backgrounds. “We worked with character modelers, animators and developers to create an empowering experience…