My maternal cousins e-mailed everyone to go to Black Panther that first record-breaking weekend, like they were getting out the vote.
In the current political backlash-the only notion the current administration has is to undo whatever President Obama did, to wipe him out-black America is nevertheless a cultural boomtown. I almost said, “Lamar is woke,” but the memory of the first time I heard my father say a thing was “fly” rose up and shut my mouth. I caught on from what the young white guy and the young black guy were talking about that Kendrick Lamar had written some of the film’s soundtrack. Not long ago in the locker room of my Harlem gym, I was the eavesdropping old head who thought Black Panther was another documentary about the militants of the Black Panther Party from the Sixties. Amy Sherald/Private Collection/Monique Meloche Gallery, ChicagoĪmy Sherald: What’s precious inside of him does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence (All American), 2017 from the exhibition ‘Amy Sherald,’ on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St.
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