Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation
The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend
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Author: Matthew Teutsch
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Racial Uplift, and Collective Identity
On December 8, 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar met with John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Kelly Miller
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Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka
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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography
Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018
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Race, Comics, and the Black Intellectual Tradition
In 1990, comics writer Dwayne McDuffie brought the character Deathlok, a cyborg, back to the pages of the Marvel Universe.
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