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The fictional African nation of Wakanda served as the backdrop for the latest Marvel blockbuster in Black Panther, showcasing a rich world that has some real-world ties to ours. Black Panther got its start in the late ’60’s as a comic book character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. T’Challa, the Prince of Wakanda, […]

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The countdown till Black Panther day (February 16) continues as the cast makes its interview rounds throughout the media. Folks like Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan have already appeared on covers like Time magazine and British GQ. Now the whole cast is showing off their melanin glory on the front cover of Essence magazine. […]

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Mara Brock Akil made her triumphant return to the CW with Black Lightning on Tuesday night, and it was a ratings smash. According to Variety, Black Lightning came in with 0.8 ratings in the 18-49 demographic. It pulled in about 2.3 million viewers, and stats like that makes it the biggest premiere on The CW […]

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Marvel Comics released the second trailer for the “Black Panther” movie just in time to shake up your mundane Monday. The trailer shows the cast in all of their Black glory, fighting in intense battle scenes laced with epic visual effects. Stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Forest Whitaker and Angela […]

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If the new trailer for the much anticipated "Black Panther" superhero movie is "magic," then the imagery captured in a new batch of recently released photos from the film are at least equally as enchanting. 

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  The Weeknd’s clandestine venture with Marvel Comics has finally come to light. During an appearance at New York Comic Con on Saturday, October 7, 2017, the singer, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, transformed his Starboy persona into a comic book character for a new Starboy comic series, due in 2018. Tesfaye teased the […]

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The "Shots Fired" creator will helm Marvel's forthcoming Spider Man spinoff, “Silver & Black.”

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Marvel Comics character Riri Williams, an African-American woman superhero, was featured in MIT’s admissions video.

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Marvel’s Luke Cage will be returning to Netflix for its second season. The announcement was made with an 18-second teaser video shared via Twitter on Sunday (December 4). The video zooms in on the window of Pop’s Barber Shop, which is illuminated by a neon light that reads “Season 2 Coming Soon.” While an official date has yet […]

  Alfre Woodard stars in Marvel’s Luke Cage as Mariah Dillard, a local Harlem politician–and cousin to recently announced Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes who is desperately looking to bring a new era of change on the very streets she grew up on.     She talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about her role and why more than ever […]

Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with novelist Roxane Gay, Marvel’s first African American woman writer. She will pen World of Wakanda, a new series stemming from Black Panther set to premiere later this year. “I had no idea I was the first black woman. I think it’s because white people take a lot for granted. […]

Marvel has seriously been stepping up its representation game and making Black women more visible on the comic rack and the screen. Now, it’s starting to do better in the writer’s room, too. Author Roxane Gay has made history by becoming the first Black woman ever to write for Marvel Comics. The New York Times […]