S E415: Afua Richardson Is Crafting Black Fantasy

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Afua Richardson, the real-life artist featured in HBO's Lovecraft Country, talks about her new project featuring Black mermaids.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Joining us again, she was the artist featured in Lovecraft Country.
0:16.7	That's right, that lady is back.
0:19.5	Let me welcome back to the show, Ms Afua Richardson.
0:23.4	Good, how you feeling?
0:25.1	We are great.
0:26.8	Last time you were here, you were working on a project.
0:29.0	First of all, we were all into Lovecraft Country
0:31.3	and how amazing it was.
0:32.4	And to know that the real artist
0:34.2	existed that they featured in all of those wonderful panels and now you have a new
0:40.4	project tell us about it. I am launching today at 6 p.m. my
0:46.5	Kickstarter Aquarius the Book of Mer and this has been something that I've been
0:50.6	working on for a really long time and I'm so excited.
0:54.8	I'm so excited to put it out.
0:57.3	It's a modern retelling of mermaid myths and legends from all over the world, blended with
1:01.2	current day issues with water and I'm taking the different stories of
1:09.0	my own family that I'm discovering it and kind of bringing it into the narrative and so it's going to be released
1:16.5	through Image Comics in May of 2021 and I'm going to be joined by some really fantastic musicians
1:25.5	to create kind of a unique storytelling experience
1:29.7	where part of the story will be told through music and I'll be joined by award-winning
1:36.3	musicians and producers including Darrell from Run DMC and I'm so super
1:42.0	super excited about it.
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