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In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
Dec. 10, 2020
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Micheal Ward as Franklyn and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Martha in Lovers Rock from the Small Axe film series.Parisa Taghizedeh/Amazon Prime Video
From a literal plague that took the lives of a disproportionate number of people of color, to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Aubury and, most recently, Casey Goodson, 2020 has threatened to become the Year of Black Death. When Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer in August, it felt like an especially cruel blow - one that shattered not just the life of a brilliant young artist, but the dreams of a community for whom he symbolized Blackness at its most historically regal and cosmically aspirational.