Technically, this isn’t Black’s first Star Wars project—in 2015, he voiced Darth Vader in several Bad Lip Reading parodies of the original trilogy alongside Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader.

Black Lightning is the first modern TV show about a black superhero. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans visited the set in Atlanta and spoke with the actors and producer Salim Akil.

Marvel television gave fans a surprise screening of the first episode of its upcoming Freeform series “Cloak & Dagger” at WonderCon in Anaheim over the weekend.

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The "Black Panther" character made its Marvel debut in 1966 as the first black superhero of African descent in mainstream comics, and the film has given the character new life, Boseman said.