Astra, the latest controller agent, was introduced to the Valorant roster in Episode 2 Act 2. According to the game, she is a controller-type Radiant agent originating from the country of Ghana. Astra ...

With the record-breaking film "Black Panther" becoming the first superhero movie ever nominated for an Oscar for best picture, Afrofuturism is gaining new momentum — even beyond film. Afrofuturism is ...

In part 3 of The Root’s video series on Afrofuturism, we get inside the creative mind of John Jennings, a professor of graphic design at the University at Buffalo, as well as an award-winning ...

Walking into New York Comic Con is a Black nerd’s dream. You wade through a sea of people decked out as everything under the sun, from comic book heroes to anime characters, from the Power Rangers to ...

This year, fans of speculative fiction and Afrofuturism will see a balloon of comics, graphic novels, film, and TV shows all devoted to centering Black and diverse stories—and Black women will be ...

From Beyoncé’s Black Is King and the Hulu adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred to the Black Panther films, Black science fiction — what scholars have coined Black Speculative Thought or Afrofuturism ...

Afrofuturism can be credited to literary greats like Octavia Butler and visual artists like Basquiat. These artists used their mediums to explore a revolutionary world where black characters ...

After the movie Black Panther became a cultural landmark in 2018, it’s appeared as if Black people have been an integral and natural presence in science fiction. That hasn’t always been the case.

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 ...

'Celestial Presence,' a 2024 painting by Gordon Rowe, is just one example of Afrofuturism from this weekend's Northside Afrofuturistic Canadian Art conference at the National Gallery of Canada.