It has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's also more than a promise that Black people exist in the future. It's more complex than taking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black hair is reaching new heights — both literally and figuratively. Whether wire-wrapped braids bent into striking shapes or ...

No Reason To Pretend is a weekly column by Stephen Kearse that explores the intersection of hip-hop and pop culture. In 1993, writer Mark Dery coined the term afrofuturism to describe art that ...

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 ...

We sat down with the legendary costume designer to discuss her personal archive and the next stop on her traveling exhibit’s tour.

Some of the biggest science fiction and fantasy epics of our time all have one thing in common. From Harry Potter to Star Wars to Lord of the Rings, all of these cultural phenomenons are centered on ...