If Ruth E. Carter didn’t get a role in a college play, she might never had become the first black woman to win Best Costume Design at the Oscars for 2018’s “Black Panther”; she repeated four years later for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Both films celebrate Afrofuturism, which has been described as an “intersection of imagination, technology in the future, and liberation.”
Carter, 63, started acting while a special education major at Hampton University. “I loved the theater,” she said during a Zoom conversation with the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart about her new book, “The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and Afrofuture from ‘Do the Right Thing” to ‘Black Panther.’”
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