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Afrofuturism

A History of Black Futures

Afrofuturism tells us about how the past thought about the future; and how African Americans dreamt of worlds they wished to occupy and soon brought into being.

Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

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At the top of the cover, Parliament is in yellow and pink font over a galaxy, above a UFO space ship.
A sliver space vehicle with multiple legs and colored lights, replicating the originally Mothership.

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Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures

This illustrated companion book to NMAAHC’s Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures exhibition explores the power of Afrofuturism to reclaim the past and reimagine Black futures.

A screenshot of a the presentation title slide for Claiming Space. It has a graphic of two saturated colors in a collage look.

Claiming Space Symposium: Presented by the Smithsonian Afrofuturism Series

The Claiming Space Symposium examines Afrofuturist thought across oceans, into land reclamations, up to the stars, through cyberspace, and inward as Black visionaries look to the infinite space within.

Afrofuturism: The Orgin title slide for the presentation. It has women dressed in modernize, futurist African outfits, collaged together.
A blue flyer for Afrofuturism: A history of Black Futures. Three images are overlaying each other on the right and information about the challenge is on the left.