Brooke Obie Cited in LA Times’ ‘Pantherpedia’
Brooke Obie’s viral piece “In Defense of Erik Killmonger and the Forgotten Children of Wakanda” on Shadow & Act is cited in the LA Times‘ “Pantherpedia: A Guide to the Cottage Industry of Essays about Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther“:
Americans in Africa
On a related subject, numerous essays explore the ways in which Killmonger’s journey mirrors the ways in which black Americans seek to reconnect with Africa, a continent that is no longer their own.“Our AncestryDNA results don’t exactly lead us into the open arms of our ancestral cousins,” writes novelist Brooke Obie on the cinematic website Shadow and Act. “We are a homeless people, not welcomed anywhere. If Wakanda is the Black Promised Land, then we are its forgotten children, sold away, left behind, rejected, condescended to.”
Read the whole “Pantherpedia” on the LA Times.