Given that mark zuckerberg announced that Facebook and its entities would fall under an entirely new name in 2021, the movers and shakers of all things black are creating a melting pot of black excellence within the digital avatar space.

Dr. Courtney D. CogburnAn associate professor at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, she has explored the intersection of blackness and emerging technologies in her research, defining the metaverse as a “translation of the physical world into digital space,” often by “people who are not us and that do not look like us”, according to Penn GSE News.

“If we don’t imagine, who does it for us? What imagination and reality are we living in?” she asked during an earlier talk.

Today, the Black metaverse is building its legacy on a…