From WBUR – Written by Tonya Mosley:
The coronavirus has disproportionately impacted black Americans, who are getting sick and dying at higher rates than other populations.
Scholars have been thinking about how survival elements — like the creation of new music and art — can serve as a form of comfort and healing. This concept is often called Afrofuturism, which centers black life squarely within the possibility of the arts, science and technology — both real and imagined.
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