A retired theatre and Africana studies professor who spent nearly a decade trying to get her first science fiction book published has released her latest Afrofuturist novel, which she says is a realistic cautionary tale.
The big picture: A new generation of Afrofuturist writers, musicians and filmmakers in recent years has produced work questioning how Black people will be viewed in the future as states have passed restrictions on how schools can teach about Black people in the past.