Black Panther made all sorts of history — as the first Marvel production to feature a primarily black cast and the first superhero movie to receive an Academy Award nomination. For Zahida Sherman, a writer and college administrator, taking her students to watch the movie in theaters felt like participating in a historical, cultural moment. “It was just black joy, all day long,” she recalls. In portraying a wide range of black identities — both superhuman and mortal — Sherman says the movie offered her permission to be herself and see that anything is possible.Sherman is the director of the Multicultural Resource Center at Oberlin College. She was formerly the assistant director of black student success at the University of the Pacific. Find her writings on race, gender, and adulthood in Bustle and Blavity.Find the transcript at <a href="https://onbeing.org/series/this-movie-changed-me/">https://onbeing.org/series/this-movie-changed-me/</a>Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at <a href="https://onbeing.org/tmcmletter/">https://onbeing.org/tmcmletter/</a>

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