How Black history is affecting mainstream media via self-published graphic novels based on real ancient and modern African stories
1960s comics are now being used to creat 21st century, billion dolar movies like X Men, Captain America and Superman. This special presentation will look at how African/Caribbean-centred graphic novels and modern technology are re-telling amazing true stories and setting up their own Black-centred universes to be transposed into exciting visual media. We will cover :
- Six graphic novels that cover real Black history
- Two historical/fantasy books en route to the Hollywood treatment
- Black British Comicbook Legends
- Caribbean designed spaceraft
- Ancient African civilisations
- Black publishers and their fight for equality: Twenty in 2020
- How to suppress Black films, the African Odysseys story
- Plus Q&A
Other Coming Events from Black History Walks
- African Odysseys: How to Fight Racism at the BFI, British Film Institute
- African Odysseys: Ismahil Blagrove season London gun crime and Cuban revolution
- 50 years of Struggle Professor Gus John
- Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
- Frantz Fanon film and talk Weekender
- Black Women and Film Exhibition
- Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
- Mayfair, Hackney,Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
- African Women Spirituality @Fulham Palace
- Deleting Black History in Institutions
- Groundings @Fulham Palace
- Kumba drumming @Fulham Palace.
- I fought the law and I won, a Black judge of 60 years of Equality legislation
- Champion Black Bowers and businessmen in 1800s London: African Odysseys