'Black Panther' Sets Records as Crowds Pack Theaters Across the Globe

As she clutches her movie ticket for a 7 p.m. showing, 9-year-old Akeelah Jaco is beaming. She has yet to see a minute of footage of Black Panther, but she already knows something about the film. "There's a black superhero. There's a lot of people like us. And there's a lot of black children in the movie," she said. Jaco was among hundreds of students from the Betty Shabazz International Charter School that turned a Sunday night showing of Black Panther at the...

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