By: Anne Branigin
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As his career shows, Michael B. Jordan has not been one to shy away from complex portrayals of black people. The actor, whose first major break was as Wallace on The Wire, has played Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black man killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer on New Year’s Day, and Black Panther’s primary villain, Erik Killmonger, a black man so obsessed with the promise and allure of Wakanda, he’s willing to kill—and be killed—for it.
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