It’s a good time to be a superhero, especially on TV.
Between WandaVision, Batwoman, Black Lightning, The Flash, Supergirl, Stargirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Doom Patrol, Titans, Superman & Lois, Watchmen and even The Boys, there is something for everyone – an ever-growing rainbow of role models. Anti-role models and powerful badasses who inspire and entertain us. In this month of black history, we celebrate the fact that more of these superheroes are black than ever before.
Batwoman recently welcomed Javicia Leslie, a black bisexual woman, as the new lead. Black Lightning will end later this year after one of the first black lesbian superheroes was featured on TV with Thunder (Nafessa Williams). Just this week WandaVision and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), and if the comics are any sign of it, she’ll be a real force to be reckoned with.
Even if the world still mourns the loss of Chadwick Bosemanwho played the incomparable Black Panther, there are many heroes to celebrate.
