Music Artists
Literature
Films
Comic books/ Comic Book Characters
Artist
100
An experimental soul singer. who smoky voice will have you calling Tyrone.
Who is Erykah Badu?
100
"Are you happy with your life?", Jason Dessen.
What is Dark Matter?
100
Wesley Snipes, Vampires, and Guns.
What is Blade
100
Half vampire, half human and he hunts vamps.
What is Blade?
100
An Oakland-based painter, muralist, and illustrator; who pieces carry a "feminine energy".
Who is Joshua Mays?
200
Once a sci-fi writing. He transitioned into music, production and digital art. Famous for "Rebirth of a Nation".
Who is Dj Spooky?
200
referred to as "A riddle that was never meant to be solved". The novel protagonist is "the kid" or "kidd".
What is Dhalgren?
200
Zambians, Apollo 11, and the moon.
What is Afronauts?
200
He was raised in Harlem and grew up a gang member. He changed his ways but was imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. While in prison, he is experimented on and gains superhuman abilities.
What is Luke Cage?
200
A Brooklyn-based conceptual artist/illustrator; who art can be found in comics such as Jaycen Wise and Ebony Warrior.
Who is Mshindo Kuumba?
300
Has an album called "Fear of a Black Planet", a sci-fi contemporary critique of American race relations
Who is Public Enemy?
300
the main character left home for the very time at age 16 to study at the prestigious Oomza Uni. Her tribe is "obsessed with innovation and technology", they "prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward"
What is Binti?
300
Post-apocalyptic, water scarcity and Asha
What is Pumzi?
300
Is the first black superhero in comics; is the leader of Wakanda. He has a connection with the Wakandan Panther God who grants him superhuman abilities.
What is Black Panther?
300
A Chicago-based visual artist; who art features mixed-media collages that add a new texture to her African diaspora-centered pieces.
Who is Krista Franklin?
400
A 15 year who music is inspired by science, philosophy, experimental pop, R&B and indie rock. She released an album called Ardipithecus.
Who is Willow Smith?
400
the story takes place on a planet with a single supercontinent called the "stillness". Every few centuries the inhabitants endure a catastrophic climate change.
What is The Fifth Season?
400
Sun Ra, time-travel, the-Arkestra and Space
What is Space Is the Place?
400
A mythical teen from a Harlem; becomes a superhero in the fight to protect her neighborhood; Is a junior agent of the Community Spirit Center.
What is the comic book, Ajala: A Series of Adventures?
400
A Kenyan artist; who collects found objects and recycled materials from the streets of Nairobi to make flamboyant futuristic composed glasses.
Who is Cyrus Kabiru?
500
His album "You're Dead" is a fusion of electronic music, Hip-Hop, and Jazz. He is the grand-nephew of jazz greats John and Alice Coltrane.
Who is Flying Lotus?
500
Afro-Caribbean theme book. Take places in a dystopic Downtown Toronto after an economic collapse. The novel is a feminist science fiction.
What is Brown Girl in the Ring?
500
futuristic city, racial tensions, and a childs death
What is Welcome II the Terrordome?
500
Her father is a black sharecropper in Mississippi, who is falsely accused of kidnapping her white playmate; the main character is enlisted by the mythical swamp creature named Bayou, who to helps her save her father from being lynched.
What is the comic book, Bayou?
500
A Kenyan artist and sculptor; who is considered as one of the most important contemporary African artists. Her work proposes the need for multiple-consciousness and alternate realities for Africa through the medium of science fiction.
Who is Wangechi Mutu?