Six months after its release, the world is still obsessed with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

Go to a costume shop this Halloween, and you can get a Smoke/Stack costume; viral memes of the sometimes saucy dialogue still pop up in our algorithms, and it keeps getting more accolades as it heads into Oscar season.

While the love for Sinners has been pretty universal, it has also brought a particular sense of joy to Black America. It has been a balm in a year that has been shrouded in tragedy, darkness and uncertainty.

Coogler believes the parallels between the Depression-era time period in Sinners and the reality of the world we are living in now have helped strengthen the connection between the audience and the horror flick.

“I think the film is set during a time that was awful. It was 1932, an

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