Necessity of Tomorrow(s): Ta-Nehisi Coates and BMA Director Christopher Bedford on Afrofutures, May 17, 2018
The second event of the BMA’s new series, The Necessity of Tomorrow(s), brings Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Book Award winner, national correspondent for The Atlantic, and author of Marvel Comic’s Black Panther series, back to his hometown of Baltimore for a timely and critical conversation with BMA Director Christopher Bedford. They’ll explore how the resurgence of Black Panther in film and in print, which envisions alternative futures and new possibilities unapologetically rooted in black culture and technology, relates to the current cultural moment.