Chapter 12: The HBCUS are Wakanda

Cinema’s Marvel Universe has long provided movie lovers around the globe action-packed entertainment. Adapted from the widely popular Marvel Comic books, superheroes like The Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider Man, and a host of others, have come to life on the silver screen receiving industry praise, huge fanfare and producing billions of dollars in revenue in the process.

On February 16, 2018, The Marvel Universe ushered in a new superhero onto the cinematic landscape and into the consciousness of movie viewers worldwide. On that February date, the highly anticipated and critically acclaimed film, The Black Panther, was released in theaters. An immediate box office success, The Black Panther went on to gross over $1.3 Billion dollars worldwide (boxofficemojo.com).