Black Panther — Zahida Sherman

This Movie Changed Me

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Tv & Film, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Black Panther made all sorts of history — as the first Marvel production to feature a primarily black cast and the first superhero movie to receive an Academy Award nomination. For Zahida Sherman, a writer and college administrator, taking her students to watch the movie in theaters felt like participating in a historical, cultural moment. “It was just black joy, all day long,” she recalls. In portraying a wide range of black identities — both superhuman and mortal — Sherman says the movie offered her permission to be herself and see that anything is possible. Sherman is the director of the Multicultural Resource Center at Oberlin College. She was formerly the assistant director of black student success at the University of the Pacific. Find her writings on race, gender, and adulthood in Bustle and Blavity. Find the transcript at https://onbeing.org/series/this-movie-changed-me/ Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at https://onbeing.org/tmcmletter/

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow movie fans. I'm Lily Percy and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Zayda Sherman about the movie that changed her life, Black Panther.
0:08.2	If you haven't seen it, you really should. But if not, no worries, we're going to give you all of the details you need to follow along.
0:15.2	But before we get started, a special shout out to our Minneapolis friends.
0:19.4	We're doing a live recording of this movie, Change Me with artist, activist, and Minneapolis
0:24.2	City Council member, Andrea Jenkins.
0:26.8	We'll be at the Parkway Theater on Sunday, September 29th, talking about Spike Lee's
0:31.6	masterpiece, Malcolm X.
0:33.6	You can get your tickets at theparkwaytheater.com and use the promo code movie friends to get 20% off.
0:40.5	We're also going to give away two free tickets to the event.
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0:46.8	forward slash TMCM letter and send us an email at TMCM at OnBeing.org
0:52.7	with the subject line, TMCM at OnBeing.org with the subject line TMCM tickets.
1:09.0	I love Marvel superhero movies, but I don't expect a lot from them, usually.
1:14.7	But when I first heard that Ryan Coogler was going to be directing Black Panther,
1:19.1	I was so excited for the layers that were going to be featured in this film.
1:22.9	I knew that he would add a depth to the character of Black Panther and to the storyline
1:27.4	that just
1:28.5	wouldn't be found otherwise in a Marvel superhero movie. Ryan Coogler understands that a character
1:35.3	needs to have more than just badass superhero moves. He understands that what we relate to as
1:41.6	people is the inner depth and layers of our humanity.
1:46.0	There is no such thing as just good and evil.
1:49.1	There's a lot of grade of life, and those things come up in the movies that Ryan Coogler directs.
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