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The trailer for Netflix's new four-part documentary series, Queen Cleopatra, was deliberately provocative. Promoting the show as executive produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, it prominently featured historian Professor Shelley Haley declaring that: "Cleopatra was black."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the trailer is pure clickbait. The show itself is a much more complex piece of work.
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