colonialism

“Wakanda Forever” Has a Lot to Say About Colonialism

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It’s hard to imagine even today, that Marvel would green light a movie where Black and brown heroes battle and vanquish white villains as its central conflict. But director Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” franchise seems to be inevitably drawing us closer to such an epic, anticolonial spectacle. In “Wakanda Forever,” we get pretty close to … Read more

Reckoning with colonialism: The British conquered my country — and built my school

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I am an 80-year-old Sudanese-American journalist who has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1980. I’m now finishing the first draft of a long memoir about my journey from a small Muslim village to the capital of American democracy. The death of Queen Elizabeth II took me back to the first khawajat (white people) I ever … Read more