Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering writer who published articles and serialized novels across genres. She\u2019s known as the author of the first science fiction novel by a woman of color \u2013 written decades before the term sci-fi was widely used. Today, you can see her ideas of an African Utopia in Marvel comics\u2019 Wakanda.\xa0 For Further Reading: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution The Pioneering Black Sci-Fi Writer Behind the Original Wakanda - Ms. Magazine Imagining the Past: Speculative Fiction and the Recovering of Black History Of One Blood. Or, the Hidden Self The Digital Colored American Magazine