Tune in Tonight: ‘Big Cigar’: A madcap tale of radical chic

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Tune in Tonight: ‘Big Cigar’: A madcap tale of radical chic

Now streaming on Apple TV+, “The Big Cigar” offers a Hollywood take on the Black Panthers in every sense of the word. The first episode explains the radicalization of Huey P. Newton (Andre Holland). A transplant to the Bay Area from the rural South, he finds California no more tolerant than the old Confederacy. After witnessing and experiencing brutal treatment at the hands of the police, he co-founds the Black Panther Party to protect Black cit…