Apparently Disney isn’t the only animation studio pushing for an African-princess character. They announced last year that the lead of their movie The Princess and the Frog would be their first African character, with Anika Noni Rose voicing the char
BET Networks and Marvel Animation Tuesday announced they will team up to produce an animated series based on the legendary superhero The Black Panther. Network officials said the show will debut in the first quarter of 2009. Casting is already underw
You are a galactic mercenary and you have just landed on a war ravaged planet. Your job is to take down a gang of heavily armed thugs led by a vicious warlord. What weapons would you take with you into battle?Phasers from Star Trek? Blasters from Sta
Max Brooks has written the greatest zombie story ever told. This book is a few years old but the. AUDIO VERSION of this book you have to hear. Each main character is voiced by a top actor. This story is so well written and thought out, stories are to
Annoying Fellow Writers <-- That has two meanings. Writers who are annoying to us and whom we annoy. So, any of you ever got an opportunity to speak with or befriend a writer whose politics and views of literature is totally opposite to yours? I actu
You are the commander of a space armada. Your target is a small planet located on the periphery of the galaxy. The inhabitants call this planet, Earth. The inhabitants (humans) are a fractious lot, divided into separate entities called nation states.
Alright!! I saw Meet Dave, the Eddie Murphy sci fi comedy. Those of you lamenting (and justifiably so) the near absence of a black man/black woman romance, will be pleasantly surprised that the creators of this movie ventured into territory Will Smit
A few years ago did HBO have a black sci-fi show called cosmic sloop, I think African Bambotta was the narrator. I only saw the comercial for it,is it on dvd.
Just discovered a book by Juliet McKenna called Southern Fire. It's main protagonists is a black warrior. I was pleasantly surprised. I haven't read it but it seems pretty good. I tend to get nervous when I see black characters in novels by white aut
I love classic sci-fi and I hate remakes but if done right I would love to see these two movies remade because they were cool 1,THEM 2,NIGHT OF THE TRIFFIDS 3,THE GREEN SLIME.
You may have heard that I met my doom at the hands of super villains over at another website in an alternate dimension! I suffered many wounds in these battles but victory was not claimed because there are no victors in these wars! They say that war
Why do we struggle so so hard......Why do other races look at us like we just entered the country.......a week ago........Wait a minute now ...I believe we paid our dues....So we should be lqqkn at them....No i'm not going to go there....But anyway I
Okay, I don't know if having a book trailer helps sell a book in the grand scheme of things...but I like seeing them and I like posting them to my blog. Unfortunately, I'm a writer not an artist (although hubby is an artist) or a photographer. And I'
http://writingforrookies.podcastpeople.com/In this episode, Brandon interviews Geoffrey Thorne, author of STAR TREK: TITAN – SWORD OF DAMOCLES and discusses the ways that new writers can approach science-fiction and the challenges of developing new w
SPACE 1999 Aired from 1975-1976 on saturday at 9pm on wpix channel 11 -now the cw11 in New york. This was the coolest scifi show to come out of the 70's it had the coolest space ship way before star wars x-wing or m-falcon. The Quller eagle was the s
If you loved GRIND HOUSE planet terror, then you have to see these two japanese Grind house masterpieces. Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police. these are to separte movies and not a double feature, but they should be seen back to back. Machine girl's c
My buddy Trevor started a discussion which led to a sobering reply from B. Sharise about black self hatred. The anecdotes she offered about her experience with her black students in regard to how they perceived themselves was familiar and disturbing.