According to a news reel from China, a young boy there possesses the ability to see in the dark. Like a Siamese cat's, his sky-blue eyes flash neon green when illuminated by a flashlight, and his night vision is good enough to enable him to fi
Read more…The Black Harvest Film Fest is looking for films/shorts for an Afrofuturism day. The deadline is June 2.
Attention filmmakers, animators, etc who have shorts or projects completed within the past year that would like to submit your work please cont
Read more…By Chris Smith, BGR
In an exclusive interview with Forbes, Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen has revealed the real reason he removed the extremely popular app from the App St
Read more…The Urban Passport is a digital marketing program that will allow you to get discounts at many web based businesses as well as local businesses in cities all over the country. This card is of no cost to you and the more people with it the more di
Read more…Is the Black Science Fiction genre unfairly overlooked? What's the best advice a writer wishes he'd never taken? "Take 5" with motivated author Jarvis Sheffield below and find out:
1) Is the Black Science Fiction genre one that tends to be unfairly
Last month, I featured an interview with the creator of the Black Science Fiction Society (BSFS), Jarvis Sheffield. This month, I caught up with him again to ask some follow-on questions, and he had some pretty interesting things to say.
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Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printer which he constructed from parts he scrounged from broken sca
The age of Personal Robotics is rapidly approaching, don't get left behind! EZ-Robot has made building robots easy and fun! Start by watching Tutorial Videos to see how easy it really is.
Canadian founded by DJ Sures, EZ-Robot offers an easy, innova
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All education is self-education. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.
Those people who take t
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Lately there’s been a lot of talk surrounding the depiction of African-Americans in Hollywood films
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BLACK SCIENCE FICTION AND AFROFUTURISM COMMUNITY
As you may or may not know www.blacksciencefictionsociety.com (BSFS) has been in operation for almost 6 years now. We’ve had ups and downs as well as made incredible strides over
Read more…Think of it as a writers-in-residence program ... one that never has to end.
A new
By K. Ceres Wright
I’ve been reading and watching science fiction since I was 3 years old and for a long time, the only character I found who reflected me w
Read more…By Taki S. Raton
For those of you who may have taken a breath upon reading this headline, please be mindful that this feature is reflective
I WAS JUST INFORMED TODAY THAT BLACK SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY WAS HIGHLIGHTED IN DANISH CULTURE MAGAZINE "ATLAS" THIS PAST AUGUST.
DANISH VERSION OF THE ARTICLE.
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Read more…(BlackNews.com) -- October has been dubbed African American Speculative Fiction Month by a group of online enthusiasts. This was done to acknowledge the writers, artists, entertainers and independent publishers around the country and elsewhere who
Read more…LET'S START COMPREHENSIVE BLACK SCIFI MOVIES LIST.
Someone asked me about a list of Black Scifi Movies a few days back.
I was surprised that we don't have a comprehensive list of them. What movies can you name that we can add to this list?
I'll st
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The Huffington Post | By Ashley Woods Posted: 12/19/2013 5:21 pm EST | Updated: 12/21/2013 8:39 pm EST