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"This permission to imagine, I believe, is the gift of all comics but T’Challa, the Black Panther, was a special gift to many young black people. Rather than a creation for us, it was a manifestation of our underlying dreams."

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A Tour Through the Underbelly of Rome

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"[I]t was important to me to show that this kind of thing can happen anywhere in this country, at any time..."

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