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The BlackSci-Fi.com Online Campaign Corner/From Here to Timbuktu: A Steamfunk Action Adventure
In our continuing goal of highlighting BlackSci-Fi and contributions by creators of color and works featuring characters of color across the various creative spectrums, we here...
The BlackSci-Fi.com Online Campaign Corner/Changa and the Jade Obelisk #2
In our continuing goal of highlighting BlackSci-Fi and contributions by creators of color and works featuring characters of color across the various creative spectrums, we here at BlackSci-Fi.com are going to highlight some awesome Kickstarter, Seed and Spark, IndieGoGo, and GoFund Me campaigns you might want to donate to. Check out the below campaign, and spread the word. Editor's note: This...
SHUDDER RELEASES TRAILER AND KEY ART FOR HORROR NOIRE
Press Release Shudder released today the trailer and key art for the new anthology film Horror Noire, a follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2019 documentary Horror...
Preview: HARDWARE: SEASON ONE #2
Check out a preview for Hardware: Season One #2 which is now available in stores, and at digital retailers. From the summary of the issue, "With Dakota convinced that Curtis...
Reviews
Review/ Batman by John Ridley: The Deluxe Edition
The phrase “needs no introduction” was crafted for men like John Ridley. He is a writer, director, and producer across various media including movies, television, cartoons, and comic books. He famously won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a...
Review/ Can You Sign My Tentacle?
Some of the best speculative poetry often reexamines traditional aspects of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror through a modern lens. Linda D. Addison's How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend? has...
Review – Fierce #2
Writer: Gabriel Smith Penciler/Creator: Raymond Sanders Inker: Clement Romaine Colorist: Sigmund Torre Letterer: Jessica JimersonPublisher: Fantasy Art ComicsRating: PG Creator Raymond Sanders’...
Review/ Pax Samson Vol. 1: The Cookout
If one could capture the essence of the black experience, many persons would find a succinct link between the value of friendship and the value of family. Two people may not be related but at the...
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How Tough is Blade?
The Dhampir. The Daywalker. The one thing worse out tonight than vampires. The one and only Eric Brooks, aka Blade, is probably the coolest vampire to appear in media. And no, despite the fact he can happily prance around at twilight, he doesn’t actually sparkle. But...
The Many Shades of Gatekeeping: How “Emerging Author” Hurts More Than Helps
By L.M. Davis I’ve been in the fantasy game for more than a decade. I can remember a time when the attention to and concern with the lack of diversity in the genre wasn’t even a twinkle in...
The Changing Tide – The Importance of Legacy Characters
DC Comics has recently announced that Jackson Hyde (aka Kaldur’ahm) will graduate from his status as the current “Aqualad” to that of fully fledged “Aquaman” in the aptly titled upcoming six-issue...
The Future Looks Black – DC Comics’ 10 year Stride Towards New Black Superheroes
“Inclusivity” and “diversity” have been buzz words that have dominated the discourse in all forms of media for the last decade at least. To that end, for the past few years, the Big Two have been...
Gaming
Top Ten Most Popular Playable Black Characters in Video Games, Part 1
With the recent release of Deathloop, a AAA first-person shooter that – as of writing – sits at an 89 on Metacritic, it’s fair to say that this next generation videogame by Bethesda is a success. I was more invested than most gamers, mainly because it starred not one,...
Check out ‘Marvel’s Avengers – Road to Wakanda: Children of T’Chaka’
In the lead-up to the release of Marvel's Avengers-Black Panther: War for Wakanda expansion, Marvel, Square Enix, and Crystal Dynamics are giving us some awesome Black Panther world content. From...
Review/ Aurion Kajuta Gems Fighter
Five years after the release of the African action RPG platformer Aurion: Legacy of The Kori-Odan, Cameroonian game developers Kiro'o Games have released the mobile game Aurion Kajuta Gem Fighter in...
Top 10 ‘Mass Effect’ Companions
As Mass Effect: Legendary Edition reinserts the epic space opera trilogy back into the limelight, I figured what better way to kick off my gaming binge with a bit of controversy. Here are my top ten...
technology (S.T.E.M.)
Black-Owned Tech Company Exstreamity Selected as a Venture Atlanta 2021 Showcase Company
Press Release ATLANTA – September 22, 2021 – Exstreamity announced today that it has been chosen out of a record-breaking 400-plus applicant pool as one of the top technology...
NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
Press Release NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like...
Howard University, Morehouse College, Winston-Salem State University, and Coppin State University launch an NSF HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research Center
Press Release WASHINGTON - The National Science Foundation awarded $2.4 million to support the Broadening Participation Research Center for the Development of...
On The Blerdar: Immense Gaming Virtual Launch Party Event
Love video gaming and STEM? Check out the below event. From the website: "We're geared up for gaming with the proceeds benefiting a great cause. Join us from 5-7 p.m. Friday to learn about esports...
On The Blerdar
On the Blerdar-7th Annual Khem Fest
Press Release NEWARK, NJ The annual Khem Fest is back for its seventh year on Friday & Saturday, September 18-19, 2021 at Livingston Mall in Livingston, NJ from 12 pm - 6 pm. Preceding Khem Fest will be the third annual Khem Animation Film Festival (KAFF)...
On the Blerdar- Check out ‘Her: Gods and Monsters’
For lovers of fantasy and high adventure, check out the latest installment in Malachi Bailey's Her series, Her: Gods and Monsters. In our continuing goal of spreading the word about prose works that...
On The Blerdar: 5th Blerd City Virtual Con
Check out the 5th Blerd City Virtual Con which will take place from July 9-11. From the event's website, "BLERD CITY CON’s 2021 Virtual Con is a Black convergence taking place Friday through Sunday,...
Virtuous Con Returns with Kickstarter Sponsored Juneteenth Event Announces Special Guests Wilson Cruz, Marc Bernardin, L. L. McKinney and more!
Press Release [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – May 7, 2021, Virtuous Con, the online sci-fi, comic book, and fantasy conventionthat in February produced the successful Virtuous Con: Black History Month...
