Black Future Newsstand Houston
October 27 - November 14, 2025
October 27 - November 14, 2025
Schedule of events
Oct 27 - 30 — AfroTech
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm CT
Location: GRB Convention Center
1001 Avenida De Las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
We’ll be bringing a mini-Black Future Newsstand to AfroTech. Come see us!
Oct 31 — Exhibition Pop-up
Time: 1:00pm-8:00pm CT
Location: Sanman Studios
1109 S Providence St.
Houston, TX 77002
SCHEDULE:
2:00pm—Live Performance
Nia’s Daughters Movement Collective & Sha Davis
3:00pm—Artist Talk
Alexis Pye, Brian Edwards Jr., Corey Sherrard Jr. Phalyn HonoraModerated by: Diamond Hardiman & Venneikia Williams
6:00pm—Black Future Musings Storytelling Roundtable
Alexis Posey, DaLyah Jones, Tea Troutman, Venneikia Williams, Viktor GivensModerated by: Tia Oso
Nov 6 — Sacred Landscapes
Time: 6:30pm CT
Location: The Reading Room HTX
1109 S Providence St.
Houston, TX 77002
Join us for a teach-in about the visual strategies of Black women artists whose work addresses issues of rematriation, land stewardship and memory.
Hosted By: The Reading Room HTX, Amarie Gipson
Nov 8 — Back to the Barnyard: East Texas Trail Ride, Exhibition, Juke Joint & Rodeo
Time: All Day
Location: LufTex Barnyard
Transportation from Houston provided.
Join us out in East Texas for a day of art, music, community and country culture! Transportation from Houston provided.
Hosted by: PECAN Project, Media 2070, Big Body Ryders, Pineywoods Trailriding Association & Ice House Radio.
Nov 14 — Neo-Sowl: Third Coast Communion
Time: 7:00pm-11pm CT
Location: Journey HTX
219 Almeda Genoa Rd
Houston, TX 77047
Neo-Sowl: Third Coast Communion is a sacred sonic gathering–a meditation in motion, merging neo-soul frequencies, live instrumentation, and spoken word into a collective sound healing rooted in Third Coast traditions.
Hosted by: Sha’Na Smith of Free Black Womxn and Neo-Sowl
Black Future Newsstand Houston presented by Media 2070 and PECAN Project, will unfold as a multi-week ceremony of remembering, imagining, and being. For nearly three weeks, art, music, media, live performance, teach-ins, and community storytelling will become our vehicle to craft a map of narratives that flow between the urban and rural– exploring repair through our past, present and future.
The Black Future Newsstand Houston will take participants on a journey of Black storytelling centering reproductive justice, climate and ancestral lineage. Through a reparative process of gathering and shedding we will collectively vision and live into a future of Black Narrative Power.
Black Future Newsstand is a project of the The Media 2070 Initiative. We are a growing consortium of media-makers and activists collectively dreaming up reparative policies, interventions and futures. We campaign for media reparations so that Black people have the capital and power to own and control our own narratives from ideation to distribution. Join us in co-dreaming a media system that cares for Black communities. Read our groundbreaking essay An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations and get involved.