Daily News | To Black people, ‘Wakanda Forever’ is more than a movie
after Boseman, a 2000 graduate. I know it sounds corny, but as I sat in that dark theater this week, I made the Wakanda salute with my fists crossed against my chest.is much more than a Marvel Studios fantasy action flick.
Many of us are descendants of enslaved Africans who arrived in the Americas centuries ago, having been dragged from their homelands and forbidden to speak their native tongues or practice their religions. Our families were ripped apart and shipped off to plantations in distant parts of the United States, often leaving us — their descendants — with no knowledge of our ancestors’ African heritage and traditions.
Although we may have grown up hearing of the greatness and riches of Africa, many had no real connection to the continent. When I was a kid, the only thing we saw in pop culture that had anything to do with Africa werereruns on TV. We’ve come a long way since then, but there’s still a deep hunger for connection between African Americans and the Motherland and its people.
“This felt like a release, almost like the world got to be a part of [Boseman’s] memorial service,” Mister Mann Frisby, a former Daily News reporter and a friend of mine, told me about the event. “I’ve never experienced anything like that where you’re watching a movie and it’s like you lost a person in real life,” he added. “We lost a character and it touched people like so deep. We needed that release. This was a way to honor his life.”announced that Frisby’s annualin tears.
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