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Michael B. Jordan accepts the Actor in a Leading Role award for "Sinners" onstage during the 98th Oscars (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

An (almost) optimistic Oscars

Coleman Spilde
(L to r) Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler behind the scenes of "Sinners" (Eli Adé/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Please prove me wrong, Oscars. Please!

Melanie McFarland
Housing and prison activist Malik Rahim, a resident of Algiers Point on the West Bank of New Orleans (National Geographic)

Katrina warned us. We haven't learned

Melanie McFarland
"Sinners" (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

The radical, divine message of "Sinners"

Melanie McFarland
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Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in "Sinners" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Sinners" defies Black history erasure

Rann Miller
"Sinners" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

"Sinners" has Hollywood terrified

Coleman Spilde
Ryan Coogler and Kris Bowers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ryan Coogler: "What is American music?"

D. Watkins
"Black Panther;" "Green Book" (Disney/Universal Pictures)

"Green Book" robbed "Black Panther"

Matthew Rozsa
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Stills from "Black Panther" and "The Dark Knight" (Photo split by Salon/Marvel/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Oscars, Black Panther & The Dark Knight

Matthew Rozsa
Michael B. Jordan as N'Jadaka / Erik "Killmonger" Stevens in "Black Panther" (Marvel Studios)

Coogler retooled "Black Panther" ending

Zack Sharf - Indiewire
Chadwick Boseman in "Black Panther" (Marvel Studios)

Will "Black Panther" get Oscar nod next?

Rachel Leah
Black Panther; A Wrinkle in Time (Marvel/Walt Disney)

A record-breaking run

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Lupita Nyong'o, Chadwick Boseman, and Danai Gurira in "Black Panther" (Marvel Studios)

"Black Panther" crushes the box office

Rachel Leah
Lupita Nyong'o, Chadwick Boseman, and Danai Gurira in "Black Panther" (Marvel Studios)

"Black Panther": A true breakthrough?

Chauncey DeVega
Chadwick Boseman in "Black Panther" (Marvel)

"Black Panther" already set a record

Gabriel Bell
Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/ Black Panther in "Black Panter" (Marvel Studios)

We need the "Black Panther" trailer now

Gabriel Bell
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Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler (Vanity Fair)

Coogler, Jordan in Vanity Fair

Dylan Marron
Janelle Monae, Ava DuVernay, Stevie Wonder (AP/Reuters/Robb D. Cohen/Kevork Djansezian/Alice Dunhill)

JusticeForFlint's radical love

Paula Young Lee
(Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

Fawning over the male feminist

Shannon M. Houston
Michael B. Jordan (Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

Dear white "Creed" fans

Shannon M. Houston
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Steve McQueen (AP/Jordan Strauss)

Steve McQueen heckled at NYFCC

Andrew O'Hehir
Ryan Coogler, director of the film "Fruitvale Station" (AP/John Shearer)

Making "Fruitvale Station"

Daniel D'Addario
Michael B. Jordan in "Fruitvale Station"

The summer's first must-see

Andrew O'Hehir
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