VIDEO: 2011 Festival Recap

Hang onto your mouse! A recap of 25 speakers, 14 sessions and 4 musical performance in just over 4 minutes!

VIDEO: Dr. Nat Irvin II on the “Demographic Singularity”

Photo credit: Ed Marshall Photography NYC Dr. Irvin, our opening keynote speaker, really brought it. After nearly 40 minutes of blowing our heads separating the fact and fiction of what the future will be like, this five minute clip has him summarizing things. The important takeaways here are the mindset that we’ll all need in […]

Post-Festival Highlights

My first thought: Thank you. That’s right, the first Festival of the New Black Imagination was a success, and I think the groundwork is laid for an even bigger and better event next year. But it couldn’t have happened without the support of a bunch of people. Yes, I did a lot of the heavy […]

The 2011 Speakers Lineup

Wow. It’s all coming together. We’ll be unveiling the Festival agenda shortly, i.e., what our speakers are going to discuss. But in the meantime, check out the speakers themselves. I mean, between the futurist, the visual artists, the music icons, the architect, the filmmaker, the entrepreneurs and poet, cultural critics and writers, it’s gonna be […]