Tag: NPR

NPR’s Code Switch Tackles Blackness in Science Fiction

LINK: Hey, Sci-Fi And Comics Fans: It’s Time To Embrace The Dark Side

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NASA and Integration During the Civil Rights Movement

LINK: From NPR’s Science Friday

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Atlanta Graphic Novelists Write Tuskegee Airmen Sci-Fi Comic

LINK: Futuristic sci-fi adventure that follows a small squad of young gifted aviators who are forced to become earth’s last line of defense

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The 1950s Latinofuturism of Argentina’s The Eternaut comics

LINK: Fantagraphics releases hardcover of Héctor Germán Oesterheld & Francisco Solano Lopez’s masterwork

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John Boyega Is Awakening ‘Star Wars’ Fans In Nigeria

Read all about it at NPR.org.

JohnBoyegaJohn Boyega speaking at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International, for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Photo by Gage Skidmore

As Tech Firms Come To Oakland, So Do Hopes Of Racial Diversity

LINK: Story on NPR’s All Tech Considered

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#POCtober: Get To Know TANANARIVE DUE

Our lovely friend Tananarive Due is noted for her work in many fields, genres and media but for Dark Matters’ POCtober, we want to draw your attention to her work in horror- on the page and on the screen.

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Here’s a profile of Tananarive in The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror

Check out her films, videos & more at Tananarive Due’s YouTube Channel
And have a look at Tananarive Due’s official blog: Reading Circle
And her website TananariveDue.com

Watch and read about the horror short she made with Steven Barnes: Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes’ Horror Short ‘Danger Word’, an adaptation of their novel “Devil’s Wake”.

And finally take a listen to this in-depth interview Tananarive had with Farai Chideya for National Public Radio in 2006:

A Conversation with Tananarive Due PART ONE
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A Conversation with Tananarive DuePART TWO

Black Girls CODE: ‘Disrupting’ Tech’s Diversity Problem

A Code Camp For Girls Of Color

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NPR’s #RaceOnTech Shares Stories from Diverse STEM Innovators

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Ken Liu’s ‘Grace Of Kings’: Epic Steampunk Reimagining Of Chinese History

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