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Feb 1, 2018
Celebrating Afrofuturists (video)
Afrofuturism describes a cultural movement by black artists and thinkers who embrace science fiction, fantasy, and other visionary storytelling forms to explore the complex realities of people of color. We kick off Black History Month this year with a salute to the pioneers of Afrofuturism: writers like Octavia Butler (1947–2006) and W.E.B. DuBois (1868–1963), space jazz pioneer (1914–1993), and expressive painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988). All have left creative legacies that inspire visions of a imaginative future as seen through the diverse lens of humanity's past.
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Jul 1, 2010
Rammellzee, Hip-Hop Pioneer
Music blogs were buzzing yesterday with the news that legendary had died at age 49. As is increasingly the case these days, the news first broke not over the wires but on Twitter, where fellow old school hip-hop Renaissance man Fab Five Freddy first shared news of his death.
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