Missy Elliott’s music tells stories of Black cyborgs, space-time travel and postapocalyptic worlds. Prince Williams/WireImage via Getty Images
by Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota
Missy...
by Roy Whitaker, San Diego State University
It is perhaps only natural, as hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary, that people look to the genre’s future....
Hip-hop culture spread quickly – to places like London, seen here in 1984.
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by Howard Manly, The Conversation; Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation; Matt Williams,...
by Julian C. Chambliss, Michigan State University
As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of “Black Panther: Wakanda...
by Alyssa Collins, University of South Carolina
In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from The Huntington Library, Art Museum,...
by Julian C. Chambliss, Michigan State University
The new sci-fi musical “Neptune Frost,” set in a Rwandan village constructed with computer parts, tells the story...
