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Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ is a prescient unveiling of a legacy long suppressed

It’s easy to imagine a different version of Descendant emerging from the wreckage of the ship at the center of it: One that focuses on the academics, scholars, and divers who discovered the Clotilda, a slave ship that illegally brought over 110 Africans from Dahomey (modern-day Benin) in 1860. While some narratives might use the …

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The ‘Descendant’ Trailer Features A Story Of Resilience In The Wake Of A Slave Ship

A half-century after Congress outlawed importing enslaved people, Timothy Meaher hired a ship captain to bring over a hundred kidnapped Africans to Alabama. Then he burned the ship. The two-masted schooner called the Clotilda remained sunken and hidden from 1860 to 2018, when it was discovered by Ben Raines, a journalist who had doggedly tracked …

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Is Kang a Descendant of the Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards?

But wait! Didn’t Kang, or He Who Remains, die in Loki? Well, based on Kang’s comic book history, we think it’s safe to say the Kang in the upcoming Ant-Man film will be a different variant of the Kang we met in Loki. Marvel does also have a Fantastic Four movie in development, and we …

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