BLACK LIGHTENING PREMIERE'S ON THE C.W. TONIGHT AT 9PM

Mara Brock-Akil is responsible for bringing us the black feminist content of GIRL FRIENDS and BEING MARY JANE. And now she and her director husband are bringing a black superhero to television.

BLACK LIGHTENING is coming. And it looks like his super-powered daughters are coming through too!



Some of you, may recall that Ava DuVernay was asked to do THE BLACK PANTHER before the current director was signed. I was disappointed she didn't get to do it. But I recently saw DuVernay's trailer for A WRINKLE IN TIME, which she did instead of PANTHER, it looks awesome.

Now Mara and her husband Salim are bringing us a black superhero in a weekly television show, which is even better news.

Not to be too petty. But Fox passed on this show first. Thank goodness, because Fox has made a mess of all the black shows I've seen there....except for one show that I can't stand anyway. Sorry Taraji.

In the meantime, here's everything you need to know about the Black Lightening character from the comic books. 

"Black Lightning was born Jefferson Pierce, and grew up in the Southside of Metropolis (which just sounds crazy in 2018) in a section known as Suicide Slum (jeez). He originally had no powers, with his abilities being given to him through a special belt he wore. It was later written that Black Lightning was indeed a metahuman with the power to control electricity. He could even turn himself into electricity, causing him to be nearly invincible, and has the power of absorbing energy to heal himself, as well as make himself stronger.

For a while, though, Pierce didn't want to be a superhero. He was a gold medal-winning Olympic decathlete, who wanted to make the Southside better for his wife (Lynn) and his daughter (Anissa; more on her later). Pierce became the principal of Garfield High School, bent on making change from the inside of a city where his father, Alvin Pierce, was murdered. On the outside, gangs like The 100 were wreaking havoc on the Southside, as were politicians like Tobias Whale (an albino who ends up becoming Black Lightning's arch nemesis)...

~THE COMPLEX

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http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2018/01/black-lightning-everything-you-need-to-know

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updated 1 16 2018