Volt: An African-American hero empowered by alien energy during the Vespan invasion.
Comic books with African-American heroes failed in the past because readers thought that the characters were not authentic, or they were repelled by the stereotypes presented, Mr. McDuffie said.
When an African-American hero named the New American is inserted into 1962's premier superteam, the turmoil begins.
A companion told me a black friend of his, roughly my age, had felt hobbled by the lack of African-American heroes and the prevalence of negative stereotypes on television during his childhood.
Andre Cailloux, African-American hero of the American Civil War is also buried here.
He would not have been the first African-American hero in comics in any case; the Falcon held that distinction.
You may think from the American news media that Woods is an African-American hero, but that is provincial racialism.
In the 1950s, Estrada penciled and inked "Bunker", the first comic-book story to feature an African-American hero, and "Rough Riders".
When Alison was in second grade, her classroom had that border with African-American heroes and leaders and there's the picture.
We can still consider them as African-American heroes or champions.