90 Monkey Man

6 Black Heroes




0:37- Black Superheroes
0:57- Looking at Luke Cage and Black Lightning
1:28- Black Renaissance
1:38- Insecure
3:45- 50 Cent multiplying
5:07- Other black TV shows
6:24- Black representation
7:28- Who we identify with
8:04- How black people are portrayed globally
11:27- X-Men
13:06- Bola’s Story- “The Sponge” 
14:47- Lost Girl
16:52- Back to X-Men + Heroes
19:27- Why we love superheroes
28:55- Dearth of Black Superheroes 
30:50- Luke Cage 
31:51- Message to the black man
33:28- Black Lightning 
35:28- We need uniforms
37:36- Jefferson Pierce from Black Lightning parallels to Elsa from Frozen
38:66- Cress Williams
39:50- Black Lightning’s wife
41:06- How do both shows depict Blackness
51:09- Underbelly of crime- black villainess
55:30- Real life parallels
1:00:00- Are Luke Cage and Black Lightning reluctant heroes
01:02:33- We need representation 
1:05:18- Anissa- the empowered young black hero
1:10:23- Had They Been Black: Alexa laughing

Intro and Outro music is “Twilight” by Capshun
           Find him on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/capshun
Show Notes by Bola Hanson
Audio engineering by Whitney Booker

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