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It’s now grossed more than Iron Man, Thor, and the first Captain America combined.
Black Panther isn’t just a terrific movie — it’s also proved to be a record-crushing machine. Here’s a quick roundup of its success thus far:
- It had the fifth-largest opening weekend in history.
- It crushed overseas sales projections and challenged the industry notion that “black films don’t travel.”
- It passed Titanic to become the third highest-grossing movie of all time in the US, behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar.
- That means it’s now the highest-grossing film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — as well as the biggest superhero movie of all time.
Greenleaf has been a major hit for the OWN network, but, according to a screenwriter and a pastor, it’s also stolen. In a lawsuit filed today in federal court in California, Shannan Lynette Wynn and Pastor Lester Eugene Barrie claim that Greenleaf is actually just a ripoff of a show they’d pitched to the network in 2014 called Justice & Glory. Both shows center around a powerful African American family and their megachurch.
Prior to the release of his album, Mike REAL discussed the concept with Rapzilla.
“One of my friends had told me ‘Man, do you realize that most of your metaphors have to do with a movie or a TV show?’”
Erin Popovich, the wife of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, died Wednesday, the team announced in a statement.
"We mourn the loss of Erin," Spurs general manager RC Buford said in a statement provided to Bleacher Report. "She was a strong, wonderful, kind, intelligent woman who provided love, support and humor to all of us."
Another young and unarmed father was killed by police after the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark.
Diante “Butchie” Yarber, a 26-year-old father of three, was driving his cousin and friends to a local Walmart store in Barstow, California, two hours outside of Los Angeles, on April 5. In broad daylight, police officers fired what sounded like 30 quick, consecutive shots into Yarber’s packed car, killing him and injuring a woman in the vehicle, The Guardianreported. Within seconds, his life was cut short in another law enforcement-involved shooting that raised more outrage about what activists have said is the disregard of Black lives.
His life mattered, and it was taken away in a barrage of bullets.
26-year-old #DianteYarber. Unarmed. Father of three. Shot by police in broad daylight. https://t.co/Z1ksuqjuzt
— Advancement Project (@adv_project) April 17, 2018
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