Wakanda, there was Zamunda.
16.02.2021 - 12:12 / hollywoodreporter.com
The United States was founded in 1776, but the modern America we live in today, argues Netflix's new six-part legal docuseriesAmend, was born in 1868, with the ratification of the 14th amendment in the wake of the Civil War.
Originally intended to grant citizenship to the formerly enslaved, the 14th, by promising all citizens “equal protection of the laws,” has offered an undeviating if obstacle-choked path toward equality for Black Americans and other groups of color, women and LGBTQ people.
.Wakanda, there was Zamunda.
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Well before the general public went crazy for the fictional African nation of Wakanda, there was another fictional African nation that was most popular—Zamunda. But in the original “Coming to America,” there wasn’t a whole lot of time spent in Zamunda, as the film primarily took place in Queens.