black panther
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Black Panther Advance Ticket Sales Already Making an Impact
If you haven’t heard, there’s this little movie called Black Panther that’s being released next month. Oh, you’ve heard about it? Well, did you know that, as of this week, you could purchase advance tickets just so you won’t end up empty-handed on Feb. 16, when Black Panther opens? With the advance ticket sales in…
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There’s a GoFundMe That’s Raising Money to Help Harlem Kids See Black Panther
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, 7:46 a.m. EST: Wakanda forever! A GoFundMe set up to help kids in Harlem see Black Panther (aka the hottest movie of the year; I said what I said) has exceeded its $10,000 goal in a mere three days, with 466 contributors donating more than $13,000. Frederick Joesph, the creator…
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Listen: The Lead Single From the Kendrick Lamar-Produced Black Panther Soundtrack Is Here
The lead single on the highly anticipated Kendrick Lamar-produced Black Panther movie soundtrack is less “DNA” or “King Kunta” and more like a poppier “Poetic Justice.” “All the Stars” gives us another collaboration between Lamar and SZA, labelmates at Top Dawg Entertainment. It’s a pretty good song—the vibe is easy and laid-back. It’s the kind…
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Shit Bougie Black People Love: 34. Making and Sharing Their Plans for the Black Panther Premiere
Perhaps, while in Slack or while looking at your Google calendar today, you noticed that an unusual percentage of the bougie black people you happen to work with are taking vacation days on Feb. 16. (And by “an unusual percentage of the bougie black people you happen to work with are taking vacation days on…
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With Bright, Will Smith Misses an Opportunity to Launch a Real Afrofuturistic Revolution
My friends and I constantly talk about how we want a bunch of black movies across the spectrum, from romance to science fiction. White actors get all the fun and we get all the supporting (and usually dying) sidekicks. Will Smith has been serving us all those movies we crave for years. He took a…
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Lupita Back on the Cover of Vogue Is All the ‘New Year, New You’ We Need
In #Faves news: She’s beautiful, she’s black, and this January, she’s back on the cover of American Vogue! Lupita Nyong’o is ushering us into 2018 with Little Mermaid-after-she-made-the-trade realness (The Root staff has been lobbying for her to star in a live-action remake of the animated classic, and we won’t let it go). This marks…
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Get a Dose of Wakanda in the Trailer for Avengers: Infinity War
You’re going to cry real tears after you watch the trailer for Avengers: Infinity War. Seriously, although the movie opens in late spring, after Black Panther, we’re given even more Wakanda in Infinity War as Marvel heroes join forces to defeat the tyrant known as Thanos. From Iron Man to Thor and, of course, Black…
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Wakanda Forever: On the Importance of Black Panther
The time has finally come. After waiting 20-odd years (read: my entire life), we are finally on the eve of Black Panther’s arrival. And by “eve,” I mean that finally, Black Panther will be the very next Marvel film to grace our eyeballs. Indeed. Come Feb. 16, 2018, black people across the African Diaspora will…
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Thousands of Black Nerds Reportedly Deceased as Black Panther Character Posters Slay the Internet
The entirety of black geekdom simultaneously caught the Holy Ghost on Thursday when Marvel released posters for some of the individual characters in the movie that already has black people practicing their “I’m ’bout ta die” voice so they can call in on Feb. 16, 2018. First of all, Chadwick Boseman’s poster as Black Panther…
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Black Heroes for Hire: Scratching the Black Panther Itch
As colorful as comics are, they have not always been kind to people of color. Even though Stan Lee and Marvel were bold enough to create the X-Men in reaction to the civil rights movement, not everyone else was so enlightened or has been so enlightened since (see #DonaldforSpiderman). The gap is noticeably present in…