latest ARTICLES by l.e.h.
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Media, Movies, ReviewThe Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies Review
I’m the resident book nerd here at Black Nerd Problems, so when we were volunteering to review The Hobbit: The…
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Editorials, Features, Review, Video GamesHow Bioware Gets It Right Again with Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dear BioWare: I was skeptical about all of the hype surrounding the characters in your new RPG, Dragon Age: Inquisition.…
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LiteratureWarriors of the Four Worlds: Black Military Sci-Fi
This month, I read a straight-forward military Science Fiction novel: Warriors of the Four Worlds by Ronald T. Jones. I…
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Literature, ReviewThe Everlasting: Black Spec Fic in the Gullah Islands
For October, Black Speculative Fiction Month to the unaware, I decided to leave the Afrofuture and read some Halloween-appropriate fiction…
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Editorials, Features, LiteratureHappy Black Speculative Fiction Month!
Hold it, Black Speculative Fiction has a month? Sure does. And that month is October. Not even the shortest month…
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Literature, ReviewMinister Faust Brings the Black Nerd Love
First a little mood music: Fela Kuti’s Fe Fe Naa Efe. With that in the background, we can get started.…
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Literature, ReviewThe Mothership: Does it Bring the Funk?
This month’s review is of Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, an anthology that came out in 2013. It sets…
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Literature, ReviewSteamFUNK! Excitement, mediocrity, and some really ugly s**t
As I mentioned in my intro (you did read the intro, didn’t you?), I’ve got a crush on Afrofuturism, a…
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Editorials, Features, LiteratureBlack Fiction with Black Folk: An Introduction, a Life Journey
I’m not going to tell you about how I started reading SciFi and Fantasy books – I was in 5th…
