Host Marco Werman tells us that actor Michael B. Jordan (of Erik Killmonger fame from “Black Panther”) has run into trouble with Trinidadians who think that J’Ouvert, his new brand of rum from Trinidad and Tobago, is cultural appropriation. Many were hoping the man who played Killmonger would not take the colonial path.
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