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The Way It Is
The Way It Is

Netflix’s Two Distant Strangers has been plugged as the Groundhog Day for black Americans, but does not allow for the rich possibility that the time loop genre usually affords.

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T'Challa Lives
T'Challa Lives

Two years since its release, Black Panther still feels as groundbreaking as ever, and led by its late great star, might just be the defining film of this new era of representation.

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