The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017
Monday, October 9, 2017
October 9, 2017 - Jordan Peele named #1 on the list of Most Influential African Americans in 2017
Jordan Peele has a gift for showing people themselves: their natural ridiculousness, their wild contradictions, their racial and cultural quirks. Drawing on his well of satirical wit, Peele wrote, produced and directed Get Out, easily the most discussed, dissected and memed movie of the year. His first major film release opened at No. 1 at the box office and shattered the record for highest-grossing debut ever, earning more than $250 million, which comes out to be something like 55 times its modest $4.5 million production budget. In the horror flick—his favorite genre—he put the Sunken Place on the pop culture map and exposed the 1,000 social cuts black people experience daily. Visit www.TheRoot.com for full article.
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