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Black Panther Beats Out Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the Biggest Monday Ever at the Box Office
Wakanda now, Wakanda FOREVER. Black Panther cleaned up on Monday at the box office, raking in a huge $40.2 million in ticket sales. That means that the superhero film just snagged the title for the biggest Monday ever and also brought its four-day box-office total to a smooth $242 million. As ABC News notes, that…
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Audiences Across Africa Hail Black Panther for Humanizing Black Characters
On Sunday night, I sat in a crowded room in Canal Olympia Téranga, the only movie theater in Dakar, Senegal, that was showing Black Panther. With all the seats around me occupied, I waited to see what the “black people” in the movie would look like, what they would sound like. Would they use that…
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An Open Letter to the Men Whose Girlfriends and Wives Saw Black Panther and Now Want to Move to Wakanda
Like everyone else, you were excited to see Black Panther. You’ve been waiting for it for years, got excited for the trailers and even read all of the newer Ta-Nehisi Coates- and Roxane Gay- and Yona Harvey-penned comic books. And while you didn’t go full Wakandan cosplay for the premiere, you did wear all black.…
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The Trouble With Hero Worship: Is #TeamKillmonger Also #TeamToxicMasculinity?
Editor’s note: Multiple spoilers ahead. After this blockbuster weekend, we’re all talking about Marvel’s Black Panther. We’re talking about the powerful women of the Dora Milaje and the scene-stealing M’Baku (Winston Duke), and we even got a new handshake to share with our folk. But as excitement reached its peak after our first look, or…
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You Have to See Black Panther in a Black Movie Theater to Really Understand It
Press screenings aren’t at all representative of what it’s like to roll up to a theater with your friends to see the latest blockbuster. Everyone’s fixated on the screen, and the movie’s jokes may get a laugh or two, but because most everyone there is there working, it’s just not the same as sitting back…
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Yet Another Reason Why Shuri From Black Panther Is the Greatest Disney Princess Ever
If “Don’t scare me like that, colonizer” wasn’t already enough to give Black Panther’s Shuri (depicted amazingly by Letitia Wright) the crown as the Greatest Disney Princess Ever—it was, but let’s just pretend that it wasn’t—there are dozens more reasons why she deserves it. In the last half of the movie alone, she saved a…
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Killmonger Was Wrong, and Y’all Know It
Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for the film Black Panther. I am not here to defend the Black Panther movie. Now, I happen to like it. It was well-acted and moving and is probably the second-best Marvel movie after Captain America: Winter Soldier, but that’s just me. All black people don’t have to like…
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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Black Panther Is Revisionist History
Editor’s note: There are spoilers here. I admittedly missed a couple of key details during my first trip to Wakanda. Something about a nerdtastic property holding such cultural significance put me in a state of bliss. So I made a return trip, you know, to make sure I didn’t miss anything. (Yeah, sure. That’s the…
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Florida Killer Not in White-Power Group After All
How Supremacist Trolls Spread Rumors to Media Modern-Day Redlining Found in 61 Metro Areas AP’s Holland Shares in ‘Black Panther’ Phenomenon FCC Watchdog Investigates Chairman’s Sinclair Ties NBC Insists on Own Pronunciation of ‘Pyeongchang’ UNC’s Invitation to Tucker Carlson Draws Scorn Laura Ingraham to LeBron: ‘Shut Up and Dribble’ Columnist Says Black History Month Has…