Reviewer Silk Jazmyne gives us her top 5 of this year! Black From The Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction (ed. Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle) – This collection of short stories has literally everything. Vampires, space operas, djinn and much more with black characters on the page with the voice of the …

When I was born, my great grandmother put a black fist bracelet around my wrist to protect me from evil spirits. And I was six, the first time my grandmother called me a child of Shango. I grew up knowing about the Orishas, connecting their qualities to those of Catholic saints. I knew the facts …