Black Future Month refocuses the lens on tomorrow's identity

This Black History Month, an arts museum in Brooklyn is going back to the future.

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, is combining the old with the new. Instead of celebrating black history in the traditional sense, the museum is highlighting the artists and thinkers who are paving the way for black identity in the future.

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The idea was inspired by a series of the same name by artist Chinaka Hodge, who paired iconic figures from the past with someone currently doing something similar. Nick James, MoCADA's marketing director, got involved with the project, he tells Mashable, creating a T-shirt of Marcus Garvey holding an astronaut helmet with the quote, "If Marcus Garvey were alive, he'd build spaceships." Read more...

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