TREVOR NOAH'S SNEAKY LITTLE CAMEO IN BLACK PANTHER

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From the stunning costumes to the amazing performances and the unapologetic way in which it explores the traumatic effects of colonialism and racism, there’s a lot going on in Marvel’s Black Panther. So much so, in fact, that director Ryan Coogler managed to squeeze in a fairly major celebrity cameo and fans are only now beginning to notice.

Turns out Coogler recruited Trevor Noah, the South African host of The Daily Show, to voice the AI in a Wakandan airship piloted by Martin Freeman’s Agent Ross during the film’s climactic action sequence...

 ~Junkee.com

Read More: http://junkee.com/black-panther-trevor-noah/160115 

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BLACK PANTHER'S CLAW'S DIG INTO REAL LIFE ISSUE: EUROPEAN MUSEUMS THEFT OF BLACK HISTORY

"It is no secret to museum and heritage professionals that there are questionable ethics behind some collections in some of the most influential museums across the globe. The dialogue of this article begins with dissecting a scene [in BLACK PANTHER] in which the relationship between colonial authority and West African artifacts commences within the film.

Without revealing too many spoilers, the resentment felt by the villain Killmonger while gazing upon artifacts of African nations is expressed and... His sentiment mirrors the real life realities of museums and People of Color, especially those from colonized nations.

 How did these museums (both fictional and real) use their authority to squelch Black Heritage for so long? 

• One answer is simple. Authority. It should be no surprise that museums have established themselves as authorities of authenticity and have used that authority to create spaces in which the origin of artifacts does not play a major part in the object’s story. 

Up until recently, how artifacts were acquired was not important to visitors, since they trusted the institution to be truthful. Killmonger’s rage in this titular scene in BLACK PANTHER openly defies that authority (as any Marvel superhero or supervillain would be expected to do) and directly expose the inaccuracies of ethical museum collection... "

~Heritage And Memory Studies 

Read More: https://heritageandmemorystudies.com/2018/03/07/the-claws-are-out-marvels-black-panther-confronts-museum-authority-on-black-heritage/ 


For years, predominantly white countries have been arguing with one another about who really owns what in one another's museum. Relics were taken as the spoils of war.

However it was the movie Black Panther that raised the issue of how inaccurate the descendants of white colonizers have been when telling the story of precious relics they've stolen, often sans any of the history of area the object was taken from. 

And you have to wonder if, for example, an object was taken from an African country where Britain lost more battles than it won, how the story of that object might be told.

In other words, European museums and government can erase or minimize the black history associated the objects stolen from African countries. 

In 1868, some 13,000 British and Indian troops stormed the fortress of Ethiopian emperor Tewodros II, who had seized several European hostages amid a breakdown of relations with the British government. The invading army secured the release of the hostages, destroyed the fortress and took hundreds of precious items. 

According to Anna Codrea-Rado of the New York Times, a selection of artifacts looted during the Battle of Maqdala, as the conflict is known, are on display at a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Read More: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/london-museum-says-it-willing-return-looted-ethiopian-artifacts-long-term-loan-180968699/ 

 A London museum is in talks with the Ethiopian government(?) right now about letting Ethiopia have it's own artifacts back as part of a long term loan. 

The idea of "loaning" things the British stole is, of course, the British's idea. And of course, Ethiopia wants the items given back period.

Again, museums have been been under pressure to return what their governments have stolen for decades. And the movie BLACK PANTHER has only poured gas on this long burning fire. But raising this issue into public awareness, especially black public awareness, can only make it easier for black countries to get their artifacts back and get the facts about their historical objects straight. 

 Why museum professionals need to talk about Black Panther

Read more here:

https://jhuexhibitionist.com/2018/02/22/why-museum-professionals-need-to-talk-about-black-panther/

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BLACK PANTHER IS THE THIRD HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF ALL TIME

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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BLACK PANTHER MILESTONE 

The Ryan Coogler-directed film is now the No. 3 highest-grossing film in United States 

With $659.3 million, it is only third to Star Wars: The Force Awakens at No. 1 with $936.7 million and Avatar at No. 2  with $760.5 million. 

 Shadow and Act   

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https://shadowandact.com/black-panther-passes-titanic-third-highest-grossing-all-time 

To tell the truth, BLACK PANTHER passed TITANIC a long time ago. At least 57 million dollars of  TITANTIC's 658 domestic gross is from a re-release a decade after it's initial release. When BLACK PANTHER has been out a decade and been re-released, that's when anything more than 601 million becomes relevant. 

But I'll take this as good news.

GO BLACK PANTHER!

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CHASWICK BOSEMAN PRAISES ARTIST KRYSTLE HICKMAN AS HER FAN ART GOES VIRAL

KRYSTLE HICKMAN DID THIS WITH A BALLPOINT PEN

I've seen other artists do this too. Artists who can do photo realistic art must have brains that are very different from the average. To be able to see and reproduce this is amazing. 

See the time lapse video of her creating this image of Boseman as T'Challa from BLACK PANTHER at the link below. Hickman usually showcases her other work via Twitter
Read More, See More: https://blavity.com/talented-artist-receives-chadwick-bosemans-praise-after-her-black-panther-fan-art-goes-viral?_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=tz&utm_source=zulu

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Wakanda Immigration Officials Institute Lifetime Ban Against R. Kelly

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From the Grio

"Kelly figured he’d get in on the Black Panther fever and tweeted that he was on his way to Wakanda. Twitter users, however, were quick to tell the platinum-selling accused pedophile and kidnapper  that he was not welcome in the Black utopia..."

 Black Twitter went in on him

Read MORE, See More, Laugh More: 

https://thegrio.com/2018/02/22/wakanda-immigration-officials-institute-lifetime-ban-r-kelly/ 

File this under 

TRAGICALLY HILARIOUS

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AFRO-FUTURISM AND BLACK POWER SET LOOSE IN HOLLYWOOD BY A BLACK PANTHER

In case you have been living under a rock and haven't been following the news on Black Panther's record breaking ticket sales:

"The bold superhero film (242 million) passed up Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($241.6 million) to earn more in its first four days than any movie in history at the North American box office, save for Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($288.1 million), not adjusted for inflation. 

Black Panther also scored the biggest Monday in history with $40.2 million, besting Force Awakens' $40.1 million..."

Read More:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/box-office-black-panther-climbs-historic-242m-bow-record-monday-1086456 

WHAT IS AFRO-FUTURISM?  

"Marvel's latest superhero flick is the perfect example of the genre and movement known as Afrofuturism. It combines elements of sci-fi, fantasy and African history and culture to create a new world to explore and escape into.

The term Afrofuturism was coined in the early 1990s to refer to an analysis of African-American sci-fi. But it's since become a method for speculative thought, imagining "what if" scenarios in fiction, music and even architecture that reclaim and reinvigorate depictions of the black experience. 

By re-examining historical events through an African lens, we can more deeply understand where we are today and, in sci-fi creations like the high-tech culture of Wakanda, imagine possibilities beyond the status quo..."

~CNET.COM 

https://www.cnet.com/news/black-panther-afrofuturism-reclaim-black-experience/?ftag=CAD-03-10aaj8j

YEAH YEAH YEAH....

Now that BLACK PANTHER has broken too many ticket sale records to count, the white gatekeepers in Hollywood officially know that Afro-futurism and black sci-fi  fiction can make them big bucks in the movie theaters.

After a few sequels of BLACK PANTHER -- especially now that PANTHER is the latest movie to prove audiences in other countries want to see American made movies about black people too -- we will no longer need the white gatekeepers. We will be able to produce our own content.

Money has already started flowing into black hands. I'm not sure what kind of deal Coogler made based on BLACK PANTHER'S success. And the actors salaries may be fixed too for now. But BLACK PANTHER was the first movie ever filmed at OPRAH protoge TYLER PERRY'S new studios in Georgia.  Tyler Perry should have made big money off this deal. If he didn't, kept his price on the low side in order to help get this first big black project off the ground, he's on the map now. He's still a major player for good. And the money and power will come.

Before the day arrives when black people can make their own big budget films, I'm thinking BLACK PANTHER has made so many white Hollywood executives so much green money that I'm probably gonna see more sci-fi and Afro-futurism on the big screen.

Somebody might even become interested in putting Octavia Butler book on screen, a series of books might become a series of movies. 

I might even get to see the book KINDRED in movie format on the big screen.

Omigawwwd!

Black Nerd Woman Meltdown Imminent!!!

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KILLMONGER AS THE MOST RIGHTEOUS VILLAIN THAT NEVER LIVED

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I literally teared up when Killmonger was dying. In my head I was screaming, "WAIT! WAIT! Take him to therapy! Shuri can save him! WAIT! What about therapy?" 

Then, I was like um....naw. He could never walk around free again because the macho approach to destroying white supremacy would never completely die inside him. And he'd wind up killing everybody in Wakanda.

Speaking of toxic masculinity and the macho in a soul being somewhat immortal, I've only seen two black male reviewers imply they disliked BLACK PANTHER on this basis. 

One parsed the characters into Black Americans and Black Africans then decided that Black American man's being cast as a bad guy as compared to a White American CIA agent being good made the film "racist." This same reviewer mentioned but had no real objection to the only Black American woman in the film only having 15 words to say before the Black American male character, Killmonger, shot her in the face (head or neck. It's hard to tell in Marvel movies where death is bloodless).

Reading this review, I also wondered if this man failed to notice that almost all the characters were black in this black movie. That is, the bad guys are going have to be black too. And the bad guys are super-bad in white superhero movies, so I didn't expect Killmonger to be any different. 

Therefore, I did not see accumulation of white supremacist stereotypes packed into the Killmonger character or the Wakandans for that matter. 

Most black reviewers seem to see that, despite Killmonger being right about a good number of things, Killmonger was truly a villain. Killmonger's other goal, made so obvious by his actions, was what made him "the evil doer" in the film.

1. Yes, he wanted the end of the worldwide  oppression of black people.
2. But he also wanted most was to take the white man's place at the top of the oppression pile

Some people don't recognize Killmonger as a villain because they are arguing about wanting to use the white man's tools --oppression, war, and genocide-- to dismantle the master's white supremacist house every day.  

In my opinion, Killmonger's making a familiar argument is one of the things that made Killmonger the best villain I've ever seen. And he's one of the best villains in the Marvel Universe thus far because he's had a good reason to be a villain. In most superhero flicks the bad guy's badness either isn't explored very much or the bad guy is bad because he has had an extremely self-centered reaction to loss.

Killmonger's reaction to loss is extremely self-centered too, but some of it is a more of a we-centered selfishness rather than an I-centered selfishness --the "we" being all black people.


Eventually we find out that Erik Killmonger's father killed by his T'Challa's father because Killmonger's father was about to murder another man. Fatherless and also abandoned by the Wakandans, Erik grows up untrained in the ways of healthy manhood. Using a boy's view of what masculinity is, he understands the world simplistically as a dog eat dog place where the biggest, baddest dog wins. 

So Killmonger's  response to his father's murder makes perfect sense. 

He builds himself up to be as physically powerful and invincible as he can. He makes himself appear even more intimidating by cutting himself, leaving raised keloids as a reminder of each person he's killed in battle -- hence his nickname "Killmonger."

Once Killmonger is an adult and a well-trained war-machine of a man,  the anti-racism and social justice Killmonger has learned from his hot-head, gun pulling father is in effect trapped within the toxic masculinity he's learned from the world. 

This it how comes to be that  Killmonger's **what to do** (free black people from oppression) was right while his **his how to do** (mass murder/war) and **why to do (pure revenge)** was wrong. He wanted to do to white people what they have done to us. But everybody who has seen THE LORD OF THE RINGS knows, you can't use Sauron's ring to kill Sauron. It will just eat your soul first then make you turns on your friends.

One cannot use war and oppression and genocide a tool to do good. It's impossible. And the outcome of letting a violent boy-man lead would have been hell on all black people, black women most of all.

However, this villain's arrival in Wakanda with a legitimate desire to free oppressed black people winds up saving T'Challa and all Wakandans from being just like the predominantly white run United States. 

Before Killmonger arrives, the black people of Wakanda are sitting on all this wealth and power, yet doing nothing for the oppressed and suffering people outside its borders. Wakanda wasn't even sharing its medical technology -- in the same way the United States, through it's corporations, will let poor people die because they are unable to afford certain medications. 

Some black people who have seen this movie were upset with how Killmonger was portrayed and how the Wakandans were portrayed, as if black pathology was being used to tell this story. But all Director Ryan Coogler has done is show that black people are human too every bit as morally flawed as white people are as a group. 

That is, of course rich, advanced black people would hoard their resources and keep filthy immigrants out too. Of course we would.

Furthermore, when black people wind up riding the top of the wave in 50 years or 500 years, black people will distribute by class and wealth in the same ways white people do now. And we will have the exact same problems with hoarding wealth and despising poor people -- the only difference will be in the skin color of the people at the top.

Trust me.   Some 8% of black people voted for Donald Trump in today's conditions when white supremacy obviously rules. So imagine how many more black people would vote for a black version of Donald Trump when 90% of black people are middle class or better and 1% of them are super rich.

The good thing about Killmonger was that he was right about Wakanda needing to be socially responsible toward the black people of the world, which is why the audience loved him at points. But Killmongers ashy hotep designs on replacing the white man as top dog would have been as deadly to the world as white supremacy. And in a Killmonger run universe black women would likely have been the first victims.  

We know this by looking at real life.

All you have to do is look at the White Hollywood end of the #MeToo movement to see and understand this. You could also look at what kind of sentence white college boys get for raping white girls. The power white women have is borrowed through marriage or sex...and even that's shaky. 

This is why white feminism exists. 

Oppressors who gain power via oppression 

only pretend to share power

Black women had to argue to get black men of The Civil Rights Movement to allow a black woman to speak for one minute during the entire main program at THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON. And just like white men, black men beat their women when frustrated over not being to find a job and finding himself unable to fulfill his role as breadwinner and leader(boss) of the family.

This is why black feminism exists.   

But, as Joan Morgan said, white women don't call their men "brothers." Having to fight black men for gender equality and stop them from erasing us and using colorism to sort us feels like betrayal  

Whenever white men, black men or brown men are talking about fixing a social problem, all women should keep their eyes open to make sure they are not solely talking about changes that benefit themselves. 

So remember this when at the movies and in real life...

Just say "no" 

to trading one oppressor 

for another

Killmonger's going to jail for life was the only way he could be allowed to live and have the black community be safe, especially the black female half. And I'm glad most of the black men who have seen the movie seem to understand that Killmonger had to go.

As Killmonger's death scene unfolded, I had just enough time to reject my initial therapy idea and accept that it was time for Killmonger to check out if he didn't want to go to prison for life.

Though he shot his black girlfriend in the face or head and lifted an old black woman off the ground by her throat, I'd temporarily forgotten that by the end of the movie. That's the only reason why it was very satisfying, in that moment, to see him get a hero's death. The part of him that wanted to save black people from oppression worldwide was righteous.

However, I did not have enough time to see if T'Challa had been exposed to Killmonger enough to understand just how badly Wakanda's United-States-Like hoarding and isolationism had let black people down in the rest of the world.

I guess that's what sequels are for. 

At the end of BLACK PANTHER, T'Challa is building and creating in a black neighborhood in Oakland. And if you stayed for the credits, you got to see that King T'Challa following up by going to the United Nations to say Wakanda will share technology with the world.

That last bit at the United Nations might have been a step too far.  Seriously. I had a longish Killmonger-moment when T'Challa started promising anything but medical technology to "the colonizers." But I guess that could make for excellent battle scenes in future movies because I am not above wanting to see the movie I expected BLACK PANTHER to be.

I walked into my movie theater expecting all the black characters were going to be good with a couple of white side kicks and that all the bad guys aliens or something. In other words, I expected something that was a skin-color opposite of THE AVENGERS, almost a film negative of all the very white superhero movies that came before.

But what I got was better.

Ryan Coogler's constructed an affluent world where almost all of the character's are black and the "colonizers" are acknowledged as negative and influential but never on screen enough to be central. 

The black women in the movie were there for the entire movie instead of as tokens, a backdrop against which a black male T'Challa could shine--which is what I also expected. 

Nakia and Okoye's part of the car chase scene had me grinning like a kid. And that scene where Okoye is doing battle, throws her wig in the enemy's face, then jumps over the rail to the first floor, red dress flowing was fire!  

Best of all little black girls in the audiene got to see black female characters with strong contrary opinions respected and ultimately trusted by black men. They got to see black women making choices that didn't make it seem like getting married was a woman's most important goal --even though the love story that's critical to every movie I've ever adored was present and accounted for. 

And when love was center stage in the movie the camera was focused on a black man. T'Challa exploded with renewed energy,  throwing multiple enemies off so he could save his sister Shuri from Killmonger -- instead of his very capable love interest.

The Dora Milaje (Based on real warriors)

Even without the Dora Milaje being on screen so much, this movie probably has the most natural looking feminism I've ever seen in a movie. And it's weaved through the entire film -- and it's a Black American film.

Ryan Coogler's a black feminist right? He must be right?

BLACK PANTHER isn't perfect. I had questions about T'Challa's father that I probably shouldn't have had. But by making the good Wakandans of Africa as hoarding and xenophobic as the predominantly white United States, Ryan Coogler has given us a deeply black, deeply human, and political movie that's going to continue to break box office records everywhere.

...which hopefully paves the way for future big budget, black, sci-fi and action adventure films for black nerds like me.

And all the success coming to BLACK PANTHER would not have been possible, if Ryan Coogler hadn't given us a familiar, toxic masculinity suffering villain worth crying over. 

Bravo! Mr. Coogler Bravo!

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For a reasonable black male perspective on Killmonger, click here:

https://shadowandact.com/erik-killmonger-forgotten-wakanda/?

BLACK PANTHER'S OTHER MESSAGE IS CLEAR: TRUST BLACK WOMEN

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SESALI BOWEN at REFINERY29 WROTE 

I seriously haven’t seen this many people dress up for a movie since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2was released. What’s clear is that Black people have been anxious to see ourselves in Hollywood on such a major stage, and the proof is in the painted faces and berets. That Black Panther is such an excellent example of Black representation is only overshadowed by how it takes a fresh dive into themes that speak directly to the Black experience...

[W]hile T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the Black Panther, is obviously the protagonist of the film, moviegoers looking forward to a narrative that centers Black men and masculinity as the only eligible leaders of Black communities are also in for a rude awakening. 

Instead, it is a visual lesson in how Black men can and should lean into the power and aptitude of their female peers. In scene after scene of Black Panther, the message is clear: trust Black women.

Read More: 
https://www.refinery29.com/2018/02/191093/black-panther-ending-women-wakanda-feminist-message?



I've read some reviews written by a couple of black men who absolutely did not take that "rude awakening" well AT ALL.  More tomorrow. LOL

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BLACK PANTHER BRINGS THE NEW GOLD STANDARD FOR BLACK WOMEN IN BLACK MOVIES

I was shocked by the casting so many dark-skinned women in Black Panther, three of them well known.

No lie. I mean it. I almost fell of my chair when I found out big name dark-skinned women like Lupita N'yongo and Angela Bassett were both in it. And I gasped when they added a new comer Letitia Wright. Then I found my homegirl, the kick ass playwright Danai Gurira --who also plays Michonne in THE WALKING DEAD-- was going to be in BLACK PANTHER too, I was in danger of passing out due to joy overload.

But now that I've seen the movie, I've had another shock. These four women were in the entire movie. 

Lupita, Danai, Letitia, and Angela

They were in the ENTIRE movie

That is, they didn't have one pretty cool scene each as I fully expected. They were in the entire movie.

They had lines to speak. They made choices. Two or three of these women were truly main characters and they played women that had their own lives. Little black girls in the audience got to see dark-skinned black women have these awesome, massively long action scenes in a movie with more than a little bit of sci-fi going on. 

And Omigaaawd, these women had opinions that did not agree with their love interest's. Even after ugly things got said and uglier things got done, mutual respect returned (I think. Can't say more.) 

Dark black girls got to imagine themselves as spies and generals and as the superhero's super capable sidekicks who can hold it down when he's busy elsewhere.
The movie wasn't perfect. The father probably wasn't fleshed out enough to truly explain a fairly significant plot point. But I suppose the movie would have been too long. And you won't really notice it if you don't think about it too hard. And you're not supposed to think about Superhero movies that hard.

But you should think about THIS PARTICULAR SUPERHERO MOVIE hard or at least just let the values be absorbed into your skin naturally. 


THE SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES OF BLACK PANTHER1) Colorism reduced by 98% (can't bring myself to say 100. And maybe there could have been one more pale-ish sistah in there, for a a minute.)

2) Sexism reduced by 90%

3) Feminist attitudes up by 4000%

4) And best of all there were black discussions of race; class; immigration; isolationism; selfish self-protectiveness; legitimate anger at white supremacy; and discussions about copying the oppressor's methods to set oppressed black people that live elsewhere free.
I can't believe I was disappointed Ava DuVernay didn't wind up directing this movie.

Ryan Coogler brang it.

Coogler brought everything to this movie I thought only a female black feminist could bring. (And he might just be doing better than Ava on the colorism thing. Not sure. We'll see what Coogler's next movie looks like when the movies not mostly set in sub-Saharan  Africa)

TRUST!

Ryan Coogler has raised the bar as to how black female characters should be handled in black movies. Frankly, I really don't know how the heck will Spike Lee, John Singleton, F Gary Gray are going to make movies that please more than 65%  of the black community after this.

BLACK PANTHER WAS AWESOME.  I don't care if you don't usually like Superhero movies. Go see THIS ONE.
  
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BLACK PANTHER BEGINS TODAY AND IS ALREADY BREAKING RECORDS

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'Black Panther' is outselling every previous
superhero film in advance ticket sales

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/media/black-panther-fandango-ticket-sales/index.html

Marvel Studios is one of the most successful brands in Hollywood. The Disney subsidiary has broken box office records, brought in more than $13.5 billion worldwide, and had each of its 17 films opened at No. 1. Yet, not many of its films have enjoyed the same level of buzz generated by "Black Panther."

The film, starring Chadwick Boseman and directed by Ryan Coogler, opens in more than 4,000 North American theaters this weekend.

Industry analysts are projecting that the film could bring in about $145 million domestically in its opening weekend, which starts Thursday. "Black Panther" could rake in more than $160 million during the four day President's Day weekend, analysts say.

Disney anticipates an opening in the $150 million range for the four day holiday weekend.

"Black Panther" could easily become the biggest February opening in history, toppling "Deadpool," the R-rated superhero film from 20th Century Fox that brought in $132 million when it opened in 2016.("Deadpool" also holds the four day President's Day opening record at $152 million).

"Black Panther's" three day projections would also put it in the top openings for a Marvel Studios film and in the top ten opening for the superhero genre overall.

~CNN

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/14/media/black-panther-opening-weekend-projections/index.html

BLACK PANTHER SHOULD HELP KILL THE ABILITY OF SOME FOLKS TENDENCY TO MISREPRESENT AFRICA

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‘Black Panther’ creates a precedent that kills the ability of folks to misrepresent and distort the continent,” Gurira said. 

“The things that it checks off: complex African female characters; African language on a big screen; African characters who are varied in many different ways and heroic; the heroism of Africans for themselves and not needing a White hero—go figure—to reach their goals; celebrating so many specific African cultural-isms. No one can really now try to put forth some product where Africa is seen begging for a White superhero to come and save it.”

~COLORLINES 

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https://www.colorlines.com/articles/danai-gurira-black-panther-will-change-hollywood-depictions-africa?

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THE BLACK PANTHER ANOMALY: DARK-SKINNED WOMEN CAST AS MAIN CHARACTERS

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From The Huffington Post

Another really big reason “Black Panther” is going to be an emotional roller coaster is the number of dark-skinned black women who were cast front and center for this film.

It doesn’t seem like it would be a big deal, but it is, especially considering the uncomfortable relationship that we — black people both here and abroad, even in the motherland — have with the insidious force known as colorism.

Colorism is defined as the discrimination, bias or prejudice leveled against folks with darker skin tones. And that phenomenon usually occurs among folks of the same racial or ethnic background. Even brown-skinned people, who fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum from light-skinned and dark-skinned, are not spared from colorism.

This is why “Black Panther” is sort of an anomaly. Based on everything we know about colorism, who it affects, and what exactly feeds into it, we wouldn’t expect that many (or really any) dark-skinned and brown-skinned actresses would appear in “Black Panther.”

And yet there are. And here’s why it matters:  

‘Black Panther’ goes out of its way to cast dark-skinned women in every single role that calls for a woman — including the love interest.

 Dark-skinned and brown-skinned black women are abundant in the movie. You can see it in the background characters, the promotional material and in the much talked about Dora Milaje - an elite team of female bodyguards that defer to our good King T'Challa played by Chadwick Boseman. And every single significant speaking role has been cast with a dark-skinned or brown skinned actress...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-panther-is-ready-to-take-dark-skinned-actresses-and-colorism-seriously_us_5a7a090ce4b0d0ef3c0a2049 


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'Black Panther' is outselling every previous superhero film in advance ticket sales

Following a star-studded world premiere on Monday in Los Angeles, ticket sales for the Marvel Studios production, which stars Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong'o, has also eclipsed every other movie that currently has tickets for sale on Fandango.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/media/black-panther-fandango-ticket-sales/index.html

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