Bonus: Today, Explained. "Black Panther Is the Most Important Movie of 2018"
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Our Bonus episode today is a new show from Vox.com called Today Explained, which comes out Monday through Friday. It's going to tell you all about what happened in the news that maybe you didn't know about. It's got a great team of people working on it, and I wanted you to get a chance to listen to one of their first episodes. So here's Today, Explained's edition from earlier this week, all about the movie Black Panther (which we covered this week in our episode with the movie's costume designer Ruth Carter). The episode has some great context to what a cultural phenomenon Black Panther has been, and why it's so meaningful to so many people. 
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