PHILADELPHIA â Rasheedah Phillips has learned a lot of ways of looking at time. Time is very subjective, explained Phillips, a Philadelphia-based Afrofuturist artist and researcher whose survey questions about time and memory are included in the new anthology Black Futures, featuring the work of more than 100 esteemed Black creatives in the U.S. and abroad. Time is very cultural, said Phillips, who is also a housing attorney at Community Legal Services, the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair community and the cofounder, with her partner Camae Ayewa, also known as the artist Moor Mother, of the collective Black Quantum Futurism. Time is dependent on a person, Phillips said. It depends on a community. It depends on your location.
good evening. with so many americans already on the move for the holiday weekend and so many others with outdoor plans we have wild weather on the move tonight as we near the end of the week where tornadoes have already killed over 130 people in this country and injured over 1,000. just today, we had a tornado in california, a tornado warning in mobile, alabama, and tonight into tomorrow, rough weather or the risk of it covering the entire eastern third of the united states. from the deep south all the way up through upstate new york into new england. all of this setting up the weekend most of us define as the start of the summer season. tonight, if you live in joplin, missouri, you re focused on survival, focused on the list of miz missing persons after the tornado there. that s where we want to begin tonight with nbc s ron allen in joplin. good evening. reporter: there s been so much confusion about the number of people missing here that the governor himself appointed som
good evening. with so many americans already on theove for the holiday weekend and so many others with outdoor plans we have wild weather on the move tonight as we near the end of the week where tornadoes have already killed over 130 people in this country and injured over 1,000. just today, we had a tornado in california, a tornado warning in mobile, alabama, and tonight into tomorrow, rough weather or the risk of it covering the entire eastern third of the united states. from the deep south all the way into upstate new york, into new england. all of this setting up the weekend most of us define as the start of the summer season. tonight, if you live in joplin, missouri, you re focused on survival, focused on the list of missing people. after the tornado there. that s where we want to begin tonight with nbc s ron allen in joplin. reporter: there s been so much confusion about the number of people missing here that the governor himself appointed someone to figure out, and t