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The Hatfield House in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the site of an Afrofuturist vision of time travel by the art duo Black Quantum Futurism

The Black Church is an institution that was forged in crises. Through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the civil rights era, the network of places of worship serving traditionally Black congregations has seen its fair share of traumatic events. In 2016, the Rev. Robert Franklin, former president of Morehouse College, acknowledged as much in a speech on urban ministries: “Disruption is the question, but the radical love ethic of Jesus is the response.” And that was before 2020 delivered the COVID-19 pandemic, the related economic crisis and the global movement for Black Li...

WHYY By Camae Ayewa (left) and Rasheedah Phillips (right) (Photo by Ryan Collerd) Time travel is not fantasy for Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa. Through their artistic collaboration as Black Quantum Futurism, they find places where science fiction and reality meet. “Our work is grounded in Afro-futurism, an umbrella term for envisioning and thinking about Black people in the future,” said Phillips, who serves as managing attorney for the housing unit of Community Legal Services, a free legal aid organization for low-income people in Philadelphia, and writes sci-fi. “In my work as a ...

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