
Garden & Gun Magazine
Goings on in the South and Beyond
In 2018, Black Panther dominated the box office, quickly becoming the year’s highest-grossing film and one of the most successful movie releases ever. The widespread popularity of the movie, which centers on the first black superhero in mainstream comics, illuminates a change in the film industry that Harry Eaddy, president of the Denton African American Scholarship Foundation, noticed five years ago when he had the idea to create the Denton Black Film Festival in collaboration with the University of North Texas.