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. For the first time in ...

But superheroes rarely stay retired. Pierce resurrects Black Lightning to combat racist cops and a violent gang, led by Whale, terrorizing the community. The battle becomes personal when gang ...

Everyone was in high spirits, and understandably so. The character of Black Lightning is the first African American superhero ever to get his own live-action network TV adaptation (readers may ...

Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. Pierce aka Black Lightning was one of DC Comics’ first major African American superheroes, making his debut in 1977. In the books, Jefferson has two daughters ...

As refreshingly depicted by Black Lightning, Jennifer isn’t in therapy so she can be an awesome superhero (though that could be an eventual consequence of fruitful therapy); she’s in therapy ...

It’s no coincidence that the CW’s latest offering in a successful string of superhero series premieres the day after Martin Luther King Day. The hero at the center of “Black Lightning” is ...

Black Lightning continues to delight superhero fans. In season 3 episode 11, “The Book of Markovia: Chapter Two: Lynn’s Addiction,” Jefferson Pierce and his daughter Anissa continue their ...

The CW’s superhero slate is expanding even further with Black Lightning. Slated for midseason, this update of the groundbreaking comic tells the story of electricity-manipulating metahuman ...

I didn’t see myself as a superhero,” she told Teen Vogue ... change and stepping up and making sure that happens.” Black Lightning is a Black ass show. Like for real.

As this moment plays out in the opening minutes of “Black Lightning,” the CW series based on that DC superhero, the motorist in question is Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams), who stepped back ...

For the first time in decades, a primetime TV show will star a black superhero. "Black Lightning" is based on a DC Comics hero. It debuts Tuesday on The CW Network. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says ...