![]() ![]() We were initially inspired by Beyonce’s inclusion of popular Youtuber Evelyn From the Internets during her 2016 Formation Tour. ![]() Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham: Black Futures started as all great contemporary love stories do-on an app! Back in 2015, we connected over Twitter DM and began to ideate on what it would mean to create a multimedia project that could get its arms around some of the cultural flourishing across intersections that we’d observed online and in the world. Rasheeda Saka: Could you tell us a bit about how Black Futures came to be? Below, Drew and Wortham answer a few questions about their work. ![]() ![]() At its heart, the book seeks to answer the question “What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?” Yet, throughout the course of the book, we are not necessarily offered answers but capacious openings that showcase the beauty of Blackness and the imaginative possibilities of our futures. Writers Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have edited and brought forth to the world Black Futures, a visually-stunning mixed-media anthology that threads together different facets of Black culture and thought by some of today’s most esteemed poets, artists, academics, and creatives. ![]()
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