New Wave of Black Superheroes Are Taking Over the Small and Big Screen

'In the recent Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, actor Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson—better known by his superhero alias, Falcon—picks up the mantle, or rather shield, of Captain America from actor Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers. Mackie’s star-spangled Captain America is part of a new wave of Black superheroes on the big and small screen as well as splashed on the pages of comic books in recent years, from Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther to HBO’s critically-acclaimed Watchmen to Netflix’s imaginative The Umbrella Academy. For more on this, The Takeaway spoke to Adilifu Nama, a professor of African-American Studies at Loyola Marymount University and author of the books Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes and I Wonder U: How Prince Went Beyond Race and Back.'