Singer/songwriter Janelle Monae performs during her "Dirty Computer" Tour at The Tabernacle on Aug. 4, 2018, in Atlanta. Monae has always incorporated Afrofuturist themes into her work. At first glance, Afrofuturism seems like it was made fo…
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and for Silly Putty, the strange material that ships in an egg and behaves sometimes like a liquid and other times like a solid, necessity came in the form of Imperial Japan. In the early 1940s, as Germa…