“Luke Cage” has many influences. The Black Lives Matter movement, the Wu-Tang Clan, HBO’s “The Wire.” Sometimes it’s easy to forget how big a hand 1970s Blaxploitation films have in this show, and the ...

In the last week there’s been a social media post that went viral, in which a Marvel Netflix fan made the ‘observation’ that the hero vs. villain conflicts in Marvel’s version of Harlem were all black ...

Luke Cage is a good show… for a bit. The first seven of thirteen episodes are a delight. Marvel’s new entry into its online-exclusive Defenders series (comprised of Daredevil, Jessica Jones and the ...

In the last few minutes of Netflix’s latest Marvel series Luke Cage, just as the dust settles over Harlem, the show’s titular hero and Marvel’s first African-American protagonist delivers what is ...