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Growing up in Chicago during the 80’s, Ytasha Womack began a journey with little notion of her specific destination. In the decades ahead she would craft an identity in journalism and the newly defined (if not newly created) genre of Afro-futurism. Honing her craft at an HBCU and at the historic daily newspaper THE CHICAGO DEFENDER, Ytasha arrived in the “print business” at an inflection point. Hip hop culture was amplified (and further validated) in the pages of VIBE and SOURCE magazines, and a new generation of writers found traction writing about Black culture, Black art, and speculations on our collective future(s). Join Ytasha as she takes us through her extraordinary journey, nurtured in family, performance, and the literary arts to become a luminary artist and cultural critic.