Charles R. Saunders

And he'd written this piece where he was just lamenting the fact that there didn't seem to be too many Black people writing in the genre of science fiction.

So he like name checks Samuel Delaney and Octavia Butler, Charles Saunders and Stephen Barnes.

and coins this term Afrofuturism and then the term sort of pops into pop culture consciousness when the movie Black Panther came out and folks were searching for this term like what can we use to describe this stuff basically stuff like Black Panther and And so that's when Afrofuturism starts popping back in or jumping into the pop culture lexicon.

And so for me, Afrofuturism is the intersection of it's like art done through the black cultural lens.