Word: midround
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Blackness includes the usual complement of interviews with experts and star voices (Samuel L. Jackson reads Johnson's quotes), but as in Burns' earlier projects, the real star here is the archival material, especially the excavated fight reels. In one, Johnson teasingly applauds an opponent midround for landing a punch. In the Tommy Burns fight, the frame freezes as police stop the fight and order the cameras stilled to spare the world the trauma of seeing a black fighter whip a white one. On film, Johnson's singularity is stark: he is a lone, relentless black giant amidst...