It was the first time we’d seen a Black superhero lead a nearly all-black cast in a movie that was given the same effort, the same budget, and the same promotion that so many other popular superhero movies had been given.
Denzel Washington certainly wasn’t the only person to shed a tear watching Black Panther for the first time.
Then Black Panther went and was also a simply phenomenal film.
The movie was a massive box office hit largely because it impacted so many people so strongly.