Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: “The Guide and The Guided”

Update: I took a picture of this poem while I was visiting a cousin of mine and I thought it was fitting for the theme of my blog and afrofuturism that is emphasized with the the images of Saturn and stars in the background, the procession of black people with flames over their heads, and […]

Modern Griots Reviews: Pop Up Exhibitons from CCCADI and Black Eye

Last Thursday I managed to attend two pop up exhibitions, one in Harlem from The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), and the other in the Lower East Side, Nicole Vassell-curated Black Eye exhibit. The Spirit of El Barrio: Past, Present and Future exhibition was The Caribbean Cultural Center first in a series of […]

Moving on the Wires: This Week’s News and Posts

*Please Donate to my blog! Any amount will be appreciated! Either click on the donate button on the side or send donation to my Paypal using my email: svfreebird87@gmail.com. Thank you! *Also, reminder to please donate and/or share my fundraiser for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge. Here is my blog post about it […]

Art of This World: Jill McIntyre

Hey everyone! I am still fundraising for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge in which the organization is inviting two bloggers to travel with them to Barbados this summer. Atlantic Impact is an organization that helps at risk youth by giving them opportunities to travel abroad. Please donate and/or share; I have until June […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Caribbean Futurisms

Thank you Kelly Baker Josephs for calling my attention to this! Conor Tomás Reed did a post describing “Caribbean Futurisms” and listing a few books that would fall under the term as well as other sources for Afrofuturism, in which I was included: “Considered within this conditional crux, Caribbean cultural forms have developed a conscious […]

Modern Griots Reviews: Salome Da Voodoo Princess of Nawlins

One of the most compelling aspects about art is that it can make you feel different emotions at the same time depending on the multiple contexts that you bring to it and the representations presented to you. For example, there is a lot of conversation surrounding the multiple receptions and audiences for Kara Walker’s Marvelous […]

Moving on the Wires: This Week’s News and Posts

These are from the past two weeks: *Please Donate to my blog! Any amount will be appreciated! Either click on the donate button on the side or send donation to my Paypal using my email: svfreebird87@gmail.com. Thank you! *Also, reminder to please donate and/or share my fundraiser for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge. […]

Moving on the Wires: Fundraiser for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge

Futuristically Ancient for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge “I recently decided to participate in a fundraiser for “Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge” who is inviting two bloggers to join them in a trip abroad to Barbados. Atlantic Abroad is a nonprofit organization that provides low-income and at-risk youth “with year-round programming […]

Art of This World: Myrna Loy (Lady Loy)

Art submission from Myrna Loy: Loy is a poet, visual artist, author, DJ, Blackbright News Magazine founder and podcaster of Jamaican British descent. She has published two books of poetry and a travelogue — Poetry’s Promise, Poetry’s Teacher, and The Other Side of Tourism. Besides finding and editing Blackbright News, which discusses topics of race […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Catherine Acholonu and Molara Ogundipe

Hey everyone! I am back after taking a short needed break. Last week marked the third year that I have been running this blog! Yay! Happy Anniversary! Today I return to highlight a few writers I found out about after reading Bilphena Yahwon’s post on Africa Is Done Suffering, “The Writers I Never Learned About.” […]