Middle Passage to Past Tomorrows is the cover piece for andré m. carrington’s edited volume The Black Fantastic 20 Afrofuturist Stories. The cover art depicts a cascading wave of Black faces in profile flowing pastward with collaged West African Kente cloth patterns masking most of their features. The cloth and flowing waves pay homage to, and represents the ways in which our African ancestors, and cultures arrived at new lands stolen, enslaved, with horrors still unreconciled. The Middle Passage, integral to the Transatlantic slave trade was a liminal space between life and death, a transformation of time, cultures, and unforeseen tomorrows. Tomorrows which give new life, foresight, and foundation to Afrofuturistic and Black Fantastic tomorrows.

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Episode 2: Artist profile segments of Marc Masters, Sage Bond, Merlin Coleman, Christina Calderon, Cynthia Oliver, and Jason Finkelman (with art by Black Kirby), plus more of ACVilla’s documentation of murals around the U.S. and a street performance, Baile en la Calle, in San Francisco’s famous Balmy Alley.