by kspence | Apr 9, 2014 | Afrofuturism, Black Popular Culture, Culture
I mentioned a few days ago that we lost Frankie Knuckles last week at the relatively young age of 59. Frankie Knuckles was to house music as Afrika Bambaata was to hip-hop. I’m in the process of writing a piece thinking about Frankie Knuckles in tandem with...
by kspence | Oct 2, 2012 | Afrofuturism, Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism
Last week I showed a documentary about the spread of electronic music. And have shown a couple of videos that were a part of the Imaging Detroit project. This week I meld the two. And I do it on this specific day because of one of the individuals interviewed in this...
by kspence | Oct 16, 2011 | Afrofuturism |
As a favor to a friend I went to NY Comic-con yesterday to appear on a panel on alternate histories and Steampunk, featuring the work Boilerplate, created by the talented duo of Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. Guinan and Bennett were on the panel, along with Ay-Leen...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media |
Photo by CoolB047I’ve been reading comic books since 1976. The worlds of DC and Marvel are as essential to my life as basketball, house music, and politics. About twenty years ago, around the time I entered grad school, there was a comic-book revolution of...
by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Afrofuturism, Hip-hop, NPR, The Future of the City, The Mass Media |
Photo by Sam HowzitIn December I had the chance to participate in a discussion about the future of Baltimore moderated by Dan Rodricks. The panelists included Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III (President of UMBC), Baltimore novelist Madison...
by admin | Jul 21, 2010 | Afrofuturism, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, Politics, The Mass Media |
A few weeks ago I was able to attend and speak at the United States Social Forum held in my hometown of Detroit, Michigan. I had a couple of different interviews about it. One conducted by Marc Steiner–this one was special to me because he interviewed my father...
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