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"To Be Young, Gifted and Black"

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“We all know what it is like to be the tail and not the head (...) We knew we had something special that we wanted to give the world, a vision of the world that we wanted to see.” Chadwick Boseman and the cast of Black Panther at the SAG awards thanked everyone there. In my latest podcast episode on  iTunes ,  Spotify  and  Soundcloud  I spoke about how excited this year has me about best picture because of the quality of movie making and themes behind the movies in the list. I do not appreciate The Favorite and Vice to much as nominees for the best picture, I believe they are great movies and AMAZING performances but as movies compared to the other 6 films I thought they are just a level below.  So yesterday, I saw the last movie I was missing before the Oscars: Green Book. And WOW just WOW. I love that this movie was completely under my radar, I heard people talk about it being good, others great, others amazing. The plot is based on a true-life story in the 60's ab