Moving on the Wires: Giveaway Winner and Invisible Man Paper

*The winner of the Sankofa Journal is bigfatjamaicanwedding. Email me at svfreebrid87@gmail.com your address and I will send it to you by the end of next week. Thanks to you and everyone who enters or spread the word about it! _ *For a limited time, you can read a draft of the independent paper I […]

Otherworldly Videos: The Afronaut

Directed by Gary Land, Phobos stars Victor Grant and is about a young astronaut trying to find the will to survive after crashing onto a distant planet. Land also directed this Ghede dance video with Russell Ferguson. Christina De Middel‘s video for her photography series, The Afronauts, based on the 1964 pace program started in […]

Modern Griots Review: Ancestral Voices

What are the spiritual and physical consequences of us not studying the spiritual and magic systems of the African Diaspora in depth? This is one question amongst several explored in the British documentary film, Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge. Premiering in New York City last Saturday at the New York African Diaspora International Film Festival, […]

Moving on the Wires: Thanksgiving Break and A Few Reminders

*Hey everyone! I am just letting you know that I am taking the rest of the week off and maybe early next week, too. In the meantime, you can look at my previous posts! *At the sidebar (–>), you can send donations for my blog and also shop for winter scarves in the Mawusi etsy […]

The My-Stery: Haunted by the Record Part 2 – Rethinking Time Travel

Last week, I read a post about time travel in Black Nerds Network. While we have not reached physical time travel yet and I am not sure I would want that, let’s consider mental and spiritual time travel. The imagination is probably our first vehicle of time travel. Through media, art, artifacts, symbols, stories, traditions, […]

Otherworldly Videos: RonKat Spearman/Katdelic

“You’re mission is not complete until you funk with mission Katdelic” “D.O.T.M. (Dance on the Mothership)” with a guest appearance from George Clinton. “The One” with another George Clinton cameo.

Moving in the Wires: Giveaway!

Hey everyone! Last weekend, when I attended the A Is for Anansi conference, I won a few books in the raffle, two of which was the same copy of the Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The journal does not receive a lot of attention, although it should. If you search […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Jayne Cortez

MAKE IFA – By Jayne Cortez Make Ifa make Ifa make Ifa Ifa Ifa In sanctified chalk of my silver painted soot In criss-crossing whelps of my black belching smoke In brass masking bones of my bass droning moans in hub cap bellow of my hammer tap blow In steel stance screech of my zumbified […]

Modern Griots Review: Zetwal (Twinkl)

Can poetry be fuel for a spaceship? One man, Robert Saint-Rose, from the Caribbean island of Martinique believed so. The inspiring documentary film, Zetwal, which means “stars,” or “twinkl” from the film, in creole, follows the journey of the Caribbean folk hero who builds a spaceship in 1974 on a mission to be the first […]

Otherworldly Videos: Oji and The Ascension Team

I found out about Oji (Oji El) and The Ascension team on Some Otha Ship’s (Georgia Anne Muldrow and Declaime) website. Oji El wrote, scored and animated the music and videos, which are filled with a lot of symbolism and are quite trippy. You can listen to their latest album, Mental Treasure Hunt, here. “The Gift […]