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The Community Futures Lab: Oral Histories, Oral Futures, and Quantum Time

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is Nicole with a bit of field reporting about futurist work in practice. Last week, I traveled to Philadelphia, PA to visit the Community Futures Lab, a project of the Black Quantum Futurism collective. Co-founder Rasheedah Phillips …

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