Herman Poole Blount, better known as Sun Ra, rightfully gets credit for inventing Afrofuturism, the ingenious blend of sci-fi, Egyptology, occultism, and indigenous African spirituality. Even more impressive, the bandleader and free jazz innovator made it to outer space before NASA. While in college at Alabama A&M University in the mid-30s, he traveled to Saturn. … Continue reading Sun Ra’s Afrofuturistic Album Covers