Black Athena
A recent Hollywood casting decision gives us an opportunity to look back at an early skirmish in the Culture Wars
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8 min readNov 17, 2020
Was Cleopatra black?
Israeli actress Gal Gadot was recently cast in the role of Cleopatra, the last ruler of the Ptolemy dynasty in Egypt, in a movie about her life. In response to this casting decision, the question of…
