Blerdtalk With Bola And Whitney

0:37- Black Superheroes 0:57- Looking at Luke Cage and Black Lightning 1:28- Black Renaissance 1:38- Insecure 3:45- 50 Cent multiplying 5:07- Other black TV shows 6:24- Black representation 7:28- Who we identify with 8:04- How black people are portrayed globally 11:27- X-Men 13:06- Bola’s Story- “The Sponge” 14:47- Lost Girl 16:52- Back to X-Men + Heroes 19:27- Why we love superheroes 28:55- Dearth of Black Superheroes 30:50- Luke Cage 31:51- Message to the black man 33:28- Black Lightning 35:28- We need uniforms 37:36- Jefferson Pierce from Black Lightning parallels to Elsa from Frozen 38:66- Cress Williams 39:50- Black Lightning’s wife 41:06- How do both shows depict Blackness 51:09- Underbelly of crime- black villainess 55:30- Real life parallels 1:00:00- Are Luke Cage and Black Lightning reluctant heroes 01:02:33- We need representation 1:05:18- Anissa- the empowered young black hero 1:10:23- Had They Been Black: Alexa laughing https://www.fastcodesign.com/90163588/why-alexas-laughter-creeps-us-out?utm_