10 Years of Being the H. Nerd I.C. for Black Nerd Problems

Unless this is your first visit to the website, there’s a good chance you have heard some version of our origin story. The short version is that Omar Holmon and I met in the Poetry Slam community, became friends, became rivals (not really), became closer friends, shared our nerd affinity with each other and came up with an idea to be our Black and nerdy selves with the world at large. We were different types of nerds when we met. Omar was a comic book and manga/anime omega level threat. I was a gaming and fantasy novel archivist. But we overlapped where it mattered most, we absolutely loved this shit. I believe Nicole Homer said it best about our nerd enthusiasms; We are absolutely the cats that kill a bird and then show up on your front step with it saying “please, partake in this splendor that I am enjoying so much. Trust me, you’ll love it.” It is an understatement to say things have changed dramatically since BNP launched. Even before, when we were having our eventual contributors post on their own blogs before our site was up and running. Or before that, when Omar, Chace Morris aka Mic Write, and myself were writing BarsInPanels where we adapted rap lyrics to our favorite comic book characters [a decade later, I’m still proud of my adaptation of Nicki’s “Monster” set to Wonder Woman] Pull up in the jet invisible gangsta /with a bad b*tch who came from Themyscira /…

We started with 9 folks who had one thing in common: They w…