Black horror is having a big moment. So is its pioneer, Tananarive Due

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Tananarive Due's new novel, 'The Reformatory,' is the latest in a career of Black horror fiction. It began with an upbringing steeped in civil-rights activism.

October is Black Speculative Fiction Month, but that doesn’t begin to explain why Tananarive Due is so busy. The author, screenwriter and professor who has been called the “doyenne of Black horror” is teaching “The Sunken Place” at UCLA — its title taken from a scene in Jordan Peele’s breakout film “Get Out.

“My mother told me that, in the 1960s, the NAACP put a lot of thought and effort into establishing the Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch because they understood then the importance of representation, which was another front in the battle for civil rights.” Civil rights history was a constant in Due’s formative years. “My mother was such a griot in our family,” Due says.

 

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