Growing up in Mississippi, graphic novelist John Jennings was deeply impacted by the horrific death of 14-year-old Emmett Till from an early age. Jennings, a UC Riverside professor of media and cultural studies, is helping to bring that story to a new medium with “Framing Emmett Till: Exposing Dark Fear,”...

Nalo Hopkinson and John Jennings to discuss their recent graphic novels and the importance of black speculative fiction at June 25 event

Author will pen “House of Whispers,” a new comic series rooted in Afro-Caribbean culture