In the history of big screen Spider-Man, there has never been a black teenager as the star of the show. As of the release of the Golden Globe winning Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, black teens have...

Comic books are traditionally male-centric, and the female superheroes who do appear are often sidelined, relegated to role of love-interest, or, to use the colloquial term, "frigded". All of this can...