“,” Marvel’s new, $200 million action flick whose title character is America’s best-known black superhero, is landing on 4,000 screens nationally this week during a cultural moment of its own making.
“It’s perfect with it coming out during Black History Month, and it’s the perfect counter-programming to (President Donald) Trump’s whole (expletive) countries comment about immigrants,” said Denver soul singer and actress , who rented out three theaters at metro-area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations to screen the film. “I’m Haitian-American and my parents migrated here from Haiti, so it really resonates with me.”
While many conservatives have decried the film as social-justice propaganda, and alt-right trolls have attempted to tank its online ratings, a loose coalition of artists, church leaders and educators are seizing it as rallying cry for racial justice in the age of renewed public racism.
“Some folks are uncomfortable having that conversation because they don’t want to see us as divided,” said state Rep. James Coleman, D-Denver, who partnered with Denver Public Schools board member Jennifer Bacon to sponsor screenings in northeast Denver. “The goal is to have conversations with students about the and its history in the Civil Rights Movement.”
