The release of Marvel’s latest big-ticket superhero project, Black Panther, arrives with a more uplifting timbre, as black audiences everywhere have celebrated the sorely needed representation and African pride bursting from every wide shot.
In the weekly column Extra Credit, Charles Bramesco recommends supplemental viewing for moviegoers whose interests have been piqued by a given week’s big new release.
Among the other welcome reactions has been an outpouring of appreciation for black superheroes and black cinema at large — here in New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s cinema has been running an ongoing series of movies featuring black heroes all month.
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