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Boycotting ‘The Woman King’ Makes No Sense - Atlanta Tribune

I’ll keep this as brief as possible. And before I get off into it, for full transparency, I’m that African American Studies lecturer that says boycotting The Woman King, a movie that tells the story of the Agojie, the epic female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey from the 17th to the 18th century, makes no sense. […]

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