I finally gave in to the hype - and sustained domestic terror threats - and took the offspring to watch Black Panther, the new action movie by Marvel. I was seriously conflicted.
In order to understand Black Panther, we must see it as both a film and as a statement. The film is based on Wakanda, a fictional African country that has featured in Marvel's comics since the 1960s, and which is the home of the superhero Black Panther. It has been a runaway success, grossing more than a billion dollars and feeding the cultural zeitgeist, from Washington to Wandegeya.
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