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U.S. Court Rules Dreadlock Ban During Hiring Process Is Legal
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled against a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Catastrophe Management Solutions, effectively ruling that refusing to hire someone because of their dreadlocks is leg
Read more…Black folks and Real Estate
Anyone on the site in real estate? What are your expectations, what does black home ownership look like in your city or town? Has gentrification hit yet or do you forsee it?
Read more…Divinely inspired?
Does anyone wonder about the works by writers like Phillip K. Dick who claim they were divinely inspired to create a work? Do you think something like this is important? I'm an occultist with leanings toward Ifa/Yoruba spiritual system (though I have
Read more…Black comics book creators (where do we go from here?)
With the current popularity of Black Panther and the cancellation of Nighthawk do we see this as a prime time for us to shine or our spot blocked by big money?
Read more…When Milestone comes a callin'
So After reading the Milestone reemergence article, I got to thinking. What would they do with new properties put under their umbrella? Would they be like Image with a universal arm and a publishing arm? Or would they be like the Big 2 and assimilate
Read more…Black Speculative fiction cross overs?
Hello all, have any writers ever written crossover works? What I mean is have anyone featured another author's characters in their work (With permission of course), or have any authors co-written with each other?
Read more…Comics in color week 1
Someone asked me today: Ra’Chaun, you’re always talking about how there are so many good comics created by African-Americans and how they blow the mainstream out of the water, but how come you never mention those comics? That is when it dawned on me
God Cell# 1 on sale.
Question: What would you do if the Gate of The Gods was unleashed? That's the question that a group of men and women, who each have their own ties to mystery, must answer before the gate is opened and unleashes an unknown power upon the world
Read more…My blog will soon be doing book reviews.
Yes it's true. I've recently decide to add other bloggers to my website and expand the reviewed mediums. As such we will start doing reviews in the very near future.
Read more…Metaphysics: Real Science or Real Bogus?
So I've been wondering what place Metaphysics has in the world of science fiction and by degrees science itself. Do book like Vodou Quantum leap or the Dancing Wu-Li Masters have any place in a world of facts and formula?
Speculative fiction that shaped your world view
Hello BSFS Family.
In the midst of working on my first metaphysical fantasy novel ( My first novel period) and I attempted to look back on what novels have changed my thinking and world view the way I hope to with my own work. I came up with Empire S
Read more…What do you Listen to when you write?
I've mentioned this before and I wanted to know (For those who do listen to music when they write). What sparks your creative juices and takes your mind to that place made of dreams?
For me It's good Hip-Hop and J-Pop.
Read more…BSFS Family Stand up!!!
Good Day all.
Nelo Maxwell your aspiring writer, and all around young lad. I've noticed something odd on BSFS these days, something that bothers me. BSFS no longer has the family atmosphere. Now I realize that this primarily a place for black creators
Read more…Star Wars Force users vs Warhammer 40K space marines
So I'm not sure how many folks are Familiar with both franchisees but from what I know of the latter they are beasts in combat. This fight will include the whole of both forces, from Grand Master Luke to Darth Nihilius from Kharn the Betrayer to the
Read more…Hogwarts vs the Jedi Academy?
I was having a recently having a discussion with a close friend and she thinks that Wizards have more versatility than Jedi so they can take home a win, I argue that all Jedi's are combat trained and certain ones (Like Grand Master Luke) can do insan
Read more…The Illustrated novel?
Those of you that know me, know that I am a comic book fan, and though I've been writing a novel recently I've really wanted to add some of that illustrated flare to it. So I ask my BSFS family, is an illustrated novel still a viable storytelling dev
Read more…Who or what most influnced you to write.
This is a just a random question to my fellow authors out there, which writer or story really got you into writing? For me it'd have to be William Gibson's Neuromancer and Samuel R. Delany's Empire Star.
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