We just saw the film and had to discuss some of what we loved and much of what we, ahem, did not.* Some questions we raise include why isn’t Killmonger the hero??! What’s up with the pan-Africanism here?!!! Why are they smiling at each other!?!?! And is this merely a remake of Paul Robeson’s Sanders…
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That Time Storm And The Black Panther Led The Fantastic Four: Magic Frogs, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X By Todd Steven Burroughs [EXCERPTED FROM THE FORTHCOMING (FEBRUARY 2018): Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates,” published by Diasporic Africa Press, 2018.] From 2007 to early 2008, the Panther…
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Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harrison. Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America. New York and Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 352 pp., $30. Edited by Jelani Cobb and David Remnick. The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker. New York: Ecco, 819 pp., $35….
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