The Black Panther and African Sovereignty

The following discussion was hosted by the good folks at APPEAL Incorporated  and was described by them as follows: The Black Panther: From Fictional Wakanda to Reality – What Does It Take To Rebuild Powerful, Prosperous and Representative African Nations and a Unified Africa? The Black Panther movie has captured the imagination of people of African…

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Whose Black Panther? The Politics and History of the Comic and Film

https://youtu.be/XLFJzKy4rb8 Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of the iMWiL! crew joined the iMWiL! crew in our collaboration with Netfa Freeman of WPFW‘s Voices With Vision for this wide-ranging, powerful discussion of his new book: Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates.  We discussed, among much else, the history of comics, White writers…

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Wakanda Must Fall

The following was originally published in Black Agenda Report. The second part of the Black Panther movie franchise continues the anti-Black and pro-imperialist themes of the first film. Black moviegoers should be wary and spend time educating themselves against very bad propaganda. This White, Western, pan-European fantasy film where all of its colonial subjects fight…

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