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Black Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon that broke box office records. Yet it wasn't just a movie led by and starring Black artists. It grappled with ideas and conflicts central to Black life in America and helped redress the racial dynamics of the Hollywood blockbuster. Scott Bukatman, one of the foremost scholars of superheroes and cinematic spectacle, brings his impeccable pedigree to this lively and accessible study, finding in the utopianism of Black Panther a way of re-envisioning what a superhero movie can and should be while centering the Black creators, performers, and issues behind it. He considers the superheroic Black body; the Pan-African fantasy, feminism, and Afrofuturism of Wakanda; the African American relationship to Africa; the political influence of director Ryan Coogler's earlier movies; and the entwined performances of Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa and Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger. Bukatman argues that Black Panther is escapism of the best kind, offering a fantasy of liberation and social justice while demonstrating the power of popular culture to articulate ideals and raise vital questions.

The desire to read Chadwick Boseman's body of work in a traditionally representational way is already complicated--in an interview with The Atlantic, (1) Spike Lee describes his casting choice of Boseman in Da 5 Bloods: \"Here's the thing for me. This character is heroic; he's a superhero. Who do we cast? We cast Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, and we cast T'Challa. Chad is a superhero! That character is Christlike!\" The conflation of Boseman's body with these iconic figures moves beyond simply reading the image as representational specifically beside analysis of temporality. Lee's film was released streaming in June of 2020, the same month that saw significant numbers of protesters supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, four months into a national response to a pandemic, and three and a half years into what felt like a never-ending presidential term. The narrative of the film takes this into account; it acknowledges the Black Lives Matter Movement and slides a notable side-eye to the Trump presidency. The film is timely, cutting, and grounded contextually in the here and now and significant for what it discloses, however, this paper is focused on how the still images which ground the film complicate the possibility of any full disclosure, and any clear, uncomplicated representation due to a collapse, leverage, and slippage of time. The question at the center of this analysis is: under what temporal circumstances does Boseman's body have a chance in its ability to live up to (or perhaps trouble) over-representation? What must happen to give the body voice? This paper relies heavily on aesthetic interventions into race and visuality as posed by Alessandra Raengo, Grant Farred, and Fred Moten as well as the discussions of indexicality put forth first by Roland Barthes and deconstructed by Shawn Michelle Smith.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) has the third highest cancer mortality rate in the United States. Enhanced screening has reduced mortality rates; however, certain populations remain at high risk, notably African Americans. Raising awareness among at-risk populations may lead to improved CRC outcomes. The influence of celebrity death and illness is an important driver of public awareness. As such, the death of actor Chadwick Boseman from CRC may have influenced CRC awareness. We sought to assess the influence of Chadwick Boseman's death on public interest in CRC in the United States, evidenced by internet searches, website traffic, and donations to prominent cancer organizations. We used an auto-regressive integrated moving average model to forecast Google searching trends for the topic \"Colorectal cancer\" in the United States. We performed bivariate and multivariable regressions on state-wise CRC incidence rate and percent Black population. We obtained data from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Colon Cancer Foundation (CCF) for information regarding changes in website traffic and donations. The expected national relative search volume (RSV) for colorectal cancer was 2.71 (95% CI 1.76-3.66), reflecting a 3590% (95% CI 2632%-5582%) increase compared to the expected values. With multivariable regression, the statewise RSV increased for each percent Black population by 1.09 (SE 0.18, <.001), with 42% of the variance explained ( <.001). The American Cancer Society reported a 58,000% increase in CRC-related website traffic the weekend following Chadwick Boseman's death compared to the weekend before. The Colon Cancer Foundation reported a 331% increase in donations and a 144% increase in revenue in the month following Boseman's death compared to the month prior. Our results suggest that Chadwick Boseman's death was associated with substantial increases in awareness of CRC. Increased awareness of CRC may support earlier detection and better prognoses.