Last month, I got a chance to visit the set of Black Lightning and meet with the cast and the creator/show runner Salim Akil. Akil is best known for dramas and comedies celebrating the black experience like movies Drylongso (1999) and Jumping the … [Read more...] about Salim Akil talks Black Lightning, Milestone Comics and the Power of Normalizing the Image of the Black Family
Mara Brock Akil
Premiere of CW Black Lightning at “DC in D.C.” Event
There's a lot going on in the world of comcis and superheroes MLK weekend. If you’re in the D.C. area and you can’t make it up to New York to the Black Comic Book Fest in New York or out to San Francisco to BCAF, then I suggest you get over to the DC … [Read more...] about Premiere of CW Black Lightning at “DC in D.C.” Event