Very few movies franchises have a cult following as impressive as Marvel. The movie tickets sell out (which is almost unheard of in the age of streaming!) and the films permeate our culture in countless ways. In the past, the heroes always centered around white individuals – supported by majority white casts. ‘Black Panther’ is a movie with a star-studded cast and a big budget – and it’s helping to reinvent Hollywood’s vision of Africa. “With a primarily black cast and beautifully designed Afrofuturistic setting, ‘Black Panther’ is the first film of its kind not only within the Marvel Cinematic Universe but in all of Hollywood.” The longstanding stereotype in Western movies has portrayed Africa has a land with distressed historical pain – a place you wouldn’t want to go. In ‘Black Panther’, the movie is set in Wakanda, which represents a portion of Africa where black excellence was able to flourish in a land that resisted colonization. This hidden place that cultivated a people who allowed African culture to thrive – a trope Hollywood has never shined a big-budget, superhero light on. In the video, we see the impact the success of this film will have on our future cinematic landscape. In fact, the lesson to be learned here is that it is time to give marginalized voices a real platform to making project like Black Panther. Our culture will be richer and brighter when once-silenced voices are given the opportunities (and budgets!) to create.