Articles by Donna-Lyn Washington

Some indie comics catch a hold of you, not for outrageous plots or shock-effect storylines but because they capture moments you resonate with. That coworker […]

Octavia Estelle Butler, best known to many as the granddame of science fiction and receiver of the Macarthur Fellowship, was born June 1947 and died […]

Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher regarded that the soul is comprised within parts and should be in equitable balance within the soul. But what happens […]

A little black boy on the shoulders of his father has the deepest brown velvet-colored eyes, filled with the happiness of being with his dad. […]

2021 is the 50th anniversary of the comic-book character John Stewart being the first black green lantern. Since being co-created by writer Dennis O’Neal and […]

The Fantastic Four, known by Marvel Comics to be their first family were cocreated by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. Scientist Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, his […]

There is something comforting about the comic-book series ‘Adventures of a System Admin’ by writer Juan Espinosa and artist El Santa. No one is destroying […]

Afrofuturism involves the Black speculative narrative where you can imagine an environment free of imperialism, colonialism, colorism and systemic racism. Think of the fictional nation […]

An organization created by Black men Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale began in California in 1966. Called The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the […]

2020 was supposed to be the year of possibilities, a new age in the shape of the Roaring 20’s from the early 20th century. It […]

Cullen Sangerye belongs to the African-American diaspora from the world he’s been fighting in from Volume I of “Bitter Root.” Transported back to 1924 Harlem Cullen has become hardened, and while […]