In late 2016, USC Film Student, Chris Ortega embarked on an honorable journey of launching a Kickstarter for the short film, PROTOTYPE that combines technology, Afrofuturism, and a female protagonist to identify issues of classism, human nature, and sexism in the black community. If you do not know, Afrofuturism is the idea of consolidating controversial topics through a sci-fi or literary...
Christian Locklayer
Christian Locklayer
Here’s How Virtual Reality Can Liberate the Black Community
Virtual Reality (VR) has been around since the mid to late 1800s. However, the term was not actually coined until 1987 by Jason Lanier during a period of immense experimentation with VR equipment. VR has come a long way from stereoscopes and full-body VR sets to the...
6 Facts About The Star Trek Universe Cast
Growing up as a child it was unusual to see more than a token black person cast in a science fiction television show, let alone having a major role. The black members of the Star Trek franchise cast were some of our first examples of black people in popular science...