It has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's also more than a promise that Black people exist in the future. It's more complex than taking ...

A call to imagine beyond the present.What better way to end Black History Month than with a look into a possible future through the lense of Afrofuturism.In late February of 2026, at the Cambridge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Martin Delany and James Baldwin to Harriet Tubman and Sun Ra. A look into the origins of the Black speculative movement and ...

African ethnobotany has shaped global drug discovery for centuries, yet African nations continue to import between 70 and 90 percent of the medicines they consume. Africa consumes what it could invent ...

Afrofuturism takes us to strange futures. In its kaleidoscope lens, the future is a canvas to imagine free Black life.

The creative minds behind Into the Mother Lands are deeply inspired by afrofuturism. “The literal term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in 1993 and the term was popularized further in an article ...

Some of the biggest science fiction and fantasy epics of our time all have one thing in common. From Harry Potter to Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, all of these cultural phenomenons are centered on ...

For Black History Month, Milwaukee Film's Ty Williams has handpicked a variety of Afrofuturist films that reflect on and ...