This is a word, a podcast from Slate.

I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

The release of Wakanda Forever marks the return of the Afrofuturistic Nation to movie theaters.

Years after Black Panther took superhero storytelling to another level, how can Wakanda

Forever rise to the sky high expectations that we all have?

If the first Black Panther movie felt like a revelation and a kind of like explosion

of Black cultural pride, this movie is going to feel like a reunion and anything.

It's going to feel like, okay, we get to reconvene and explore more collective emotions

together.

The return to Wakanda, coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson, stay with us.

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Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else.

I'm your host Jason Johnson.

Much has changed since Black Panther lit up movie screens in 2018, becoming an unprecedented

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