Film, Video What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism

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Title: What Was, What Is & What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism
Summary: Author/playwright Tananarive Due, novelist N.K. Jemisin and poet Airea D. Matthews discuss the origins and extensions of Afrofuturism in a conversation moderated by Sheree Renée Thomas.
Event Date: February 12, 2019
Running Time: 1 hours 7 minutes 33 seconds
Online Format: video; image; online text

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