These are the first two chapters of a science fiction novel I'm publishing in 2010. Let me know what you think.-1-He crouched in a shroud of darkness, comforted by the ceramic pulse rifle gripped in his hands and the shallow breathing of his platoon.
Earth, 9002 A.D: Now a forgotten planet on the edge of a distant galaxy, Earth is in danger. And its inhabitants, descendants of ancient Egyptians who live deep within the planet's core, must depend for their lives on a reluctant heroine. Maatkara, a
Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 Drawing a Whole New Image for Africa
By SIMON ROBINSON | Dakar
In a small, muggy room inside a whitewashed house in Dakar, the capital of the West African country of Senegal, eight artists hunch over their drawing boards, sketc
Risking his life in the coldest part of the world, Matthew Henson was the first American to discover the North Pole, as part of Robert Peary’s expedition. He spent his life as a young boy traveling the world on the high seas and craved the life of an
The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a novel written by Sam Greenlee and published in 1969 and the 1973 film of the same name. An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the c
Three Twilight Zone-inspired vignettes address the plight of America's minorities. In Part I, a conservative African American politician must decide whether the survival of his race or the appeasement of White people is more important when aliens dem
The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a novel written by Sam Greenlee and published in 1969 and the 1973 film of the same name. An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the c
Tearing up the skies with her daredevil dives, barnstorming Bessie Coleman flew low and zoomed high. Audiences gasped when Bessie performed barrel rolls and the wings of her plane touched the tips of the clouds like a bird on high. Bessie was the fir
Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron o
This incredible feature-length animated movie follows the troubles of two high school kids. Fierce rivals, the two regularly butt heads over all manner of issues, ranging from the trivial to the important. The film enters the fantasy realm as an acci
Joe Morton stars in this dramatic comedy, set in New York City in the early 1980s, as "The Brother," an alien and escaped slave who, while fleeing "Another Planet," has crash-landed in Upper New York Harbor. Picked up as homeless, he is deposited in
Young time travelers with attitude and a divine purpose. What would happen if an MP3 player was the doorway to history? http://www.theguardianline.com/
Tick tock went the clock--- for 40 years the clock Benjamin Banneker built kept perfect time. But time didn’t stop this genius from becoming a famous mathematician, astronomer and surveyor. He surveyed the city of Washington, DC with Pierre L’Enfant,
Ashford scowled but followed Miranda into the bedroom where they laid down, side by side, slipping off her robe and brushing the tips of fingers across her chin, down her shoulder, her arm, up again along her stomach and breasts before clutching her
The Crypt Keeper? No, the Crib Keeper. With an extended animated opening,Snoop Dogg's HOOD OF HORROR continues the comic book tradition of the 1950s E.C. comics. The opening cartoon, and there is nothing funny about this cartoon, features a gang figh
This movie is Black Sci-Fi & Afrofuturism's largest secret. I saw this surreal cinematic essay/documentary at a Black Sci Fi screening last year, and everyone including myself couldn't believe we had never heard of it. And its 11 years old. The peopl
