"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia Butler captures many societal problems we see, specific to race and disabilities. Butler uses metaphor in this short story to examine the intersections of race, discrimination, oppression, mental illness, disability, and healthcare through an afrofuturist mindset.
Jordan Peele's "Get Out" is a revolutionary film that depicts a Black protagonist in the Horror Noire genre. The film falls within the the afrofuturist cannon because of its role reversals and the way in which Peele subtly addresses racial trauma and the legacy of slavery in a horror story.
For centuries, there has been a divide between people, created by the people. This divide has been used to classify people by the color of their skin, somehow translating into their worth as members of society. This divide is the "color line." Author W.E.B. DuBois pondered this over one hundred years ago in his afrofuturistic work, ”The Comet." Unfortunately, the problem has yet to be resolved.
One of the earliest works of speculative fiction in the Afrofuturist canon. Published as a weekly serial in the Anglo-African Magazine and the Weekly Anglo-African. In this antebellum narrative, Delany tells the story of Henry Blake, a free-born slave who escapes bondage. He travels around the U.S. and Cuba seeking collaborators who will join his to start a series of slave insurrections in the US and Caribbean. The story was never finished.
An early speculative short story about the "colorline" in the U.S. and the apocalypse. Originally published in the book Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil.