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T\u2019Nae Parker, a Columbia resident, organized the fundraising to bring kids to the “Black Panther” movie.<\/p>\n
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Dippin\u2019 Dog food truck volunteer organizes bags of food to hand out to families.<\/p>\n
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Last weekend, hundreds of kids in the capital city were given the opportunity to see the superhero movie “Black Panther\u201d for free.<\/span><\/p>\n Roughly 800 children and their families received tickets and food at a movie showing at the AMC Dutch\u00a0Square theater, all due to the volunteer effort of one woman who turned out to be a community superhero.<\/span><\/p>\n T\u2019Nae Parker, a Columbia resident,\u00a0used the\u00a0opening weekend to reach out to the community. Parker\u00a0raised $9,616 to purchase 800 tickets for children, their families, and volunteers to attend the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n Parker isn\u2019t attached to any volunteer organization and doesn\u2019t hold a position within any outreach program. But she wanted\u00a0to\u00a0provide a positive experience to children, and thought the blockbuster movie would be a terrific vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s extremely important for our black children, especially for our little black boys, to see positive self-image, to see that we can be so much more than the media portrays us as,\u201d Parker said. She explained that it was crucial to see positive media representations of African culture.<\/span><\/p>\n Parker wasn\u2019t alone in this thought. A number of people volunteered to provide and serve food to the moviegoers, as well. Dippin\u2019 Dog food truck supplied 800 bags of hot dogs and chips. A few people donated cupcakes and popcorn to attendees, and a DJ spun music while people waited to get in to their theater auditoriums. Volunteers received free tickets as well, after organizing and serving out food.<\/span><\/p>\n Families came to the AMC Dutch Square movie theater in droves. The parking lot was full of cars, well before the movie even began.<\/span><\/p>\n The event had kids dancing, laughing and eating \u201cBlack Panther\u201d-themed cupcakes. Families posed in front of the movie posters wearing themed outfits and homemade costumes. A number of young kids claimed \u201cBlack Panther\u201d as their favorite superhero, even before watching the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBlack Panther\u201d is crushing box office records domestically and internationally this holiday weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n The movie was estimated to bring in over $360 million in its initial opening,\u00a0making it one of the best opening weekends for a movie, ever.<\/span><\/p>\n Moviegoers walked out afterwards claiming that “Black Panther,” was the greatest movie they had ever seen. Many of the children that Parker was able to provide this experience for agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n Parker decided to host this event because she believes that people’s combined efforts can create some incredible results.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to everyone that helps. I think it\u2019s important that everybody helps,” she said.\u00a0“I think sometimes you decide not to do things because you think somebody else is doing it already. The thing is, there can never be too many people doing good at one time,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Columbia superhero brought kids together to see “Black Panther” showings this weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[42,39,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8724,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/8724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}