BLACK FUTURES

TODAY IS YESTERDAY’S TOMORROW

King Britt

NOW MORE THAN EVER

Morgan Parker

THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE

Alisha Wormsley

BLACK MAMAS BAILOUT DAY

(F)empower

IN CONVERSATION

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson and Carolyn Lazard with art by Alice Sheppard

TIME & MEMORY

Rasheedah Phillips

LOVE IS THE MESSAGE, THE MESSAGE IS DEATH

Arthur Jafa in conversation with Tina Campt

IN CONVERSATION

Shawné Michaelain Holloway and Tiona Nekkia McClodden

THE BLACK SIMMER

Amira Virgil

JUNE JORDAN’S VISION OF A BLACK FUTURE

Doreen St. Félix with art by Renee Gladman

IN CONVERSATION

Rodan Tekle, Sean D. Henry-Smith, and Destiny Brundidge

BLACK POLITICAL ACTION

De’Ara Balenger with art by Ment Nelson

FAR BEYOND THE STARS

Ayana Jamieson with art by Lauren Halsey

“BLACK VIRALITY IS EVERYTHING FROM HENRIETTA LACKS TO THE DAB.” — SALOME ASEGA

Eleven-year-old Naomi Wadler addresses the March for Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, including students, teachers, and parents, gathered in Washington for the anti–gun violence rally organized by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 that left seventeen dead. More than 800 related events have taken place around the world to call for legislative action to address school safety and gun violence.