Disney-Marvel’s“Black Panther” is heading for a$235 milliondebut over the four-day President’s Day weekend.[1]The movie is acomic-bookfantasythat is being touted to the masses as a sense of black empowerment.Black Panther, the movie, is a falseILLUSIONofBlack Empowerment. I have not...
Gordon Parks was the first Black director to ever make a movie with a major Hollywood studio. His debut, "The Learning Tree," is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager growing up in rural Kansas during the 1920s. The powerful film can be rented on Amazon Prime, but ha...
The Black Panther Party And Their Leaders The Black Panther Party evolved out of the necessity to improve the lives of the American black people and proclaimed self-defense. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale established the Black Panther Party in California in 1966.The rise of the Panther Party came...
“When we first started theBlack Lightingjourney, I knew that Jefferson Pierce and his family of powerful Black women would be a unique addition to the superhero genre,” the statement said, according toEntertainment Weekly. He continued, “The love that Blerds and all comic book fans around t...
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[1] The movie is a comic-book fantasy that is being touted to the masses as a sense of black empowerment. Black Panther, the movie, is a false ILLUSION of Black Empowerment. I have not and will not review the film because it is what it is a fantasy–a Walt Disney cartoon that has...
Criticisms of the film still stand, but the way Black Panther became a cultural phenomena is unmatched. I had never seen such collective Black joy until the week of the release of Black Panther. It was a reason to celebrate, whether you liked superhero movies or not. And, boy, did we ...
My mother was born in the 1920s on acottoncrop-sharing tenant farm in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana under the conditions and badges of human bondage. She often talked about the hard times. Sometimes when she talked about thecotton farm, I could see the fear that still lingered in her heart ...