Anthony Mackie is making his film debut as the first Black Captain America decades after Marvel's initial "resistance" to the change. “Not because anybody disbelieved the message,” Waid ...

I’ll tell you this in front of Chief White and Chief Collins ... He did not name that captain but said in the recording that the seven other captains were Black. Of Collins, he said, “I ...

Anthony Mackie taking on the role of Captain America ... portrayed as a white man with blond hair and blue eyes, isn’t groundbreaking to comic books fans. The idea of a Black man as the ...

So it was never an idea of, ‘Oh, one day I’m going to grow to be Captain America,'" he said. When Deadline asked if it was because he is Black ... written for a White actor, Mackie said ...

"I think it’s just as important for Black kids to see a Black Captain America as it is for white kids," the actor says in the video below. "Growing up, my favourite hero was green; it wasn’t ...