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Slideshow: Who should play Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’?

by Melissa Noel | June 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM
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Denzel Washington leaves 'The Late Show with David Letterman' at Ed Sullivan Theater on February 7, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Donna Ward/Getty Images)

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