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‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ promises a black Captain America

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Disney+ just launched its second Marvel miniseries, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” spinning off two characters from the world-encompassing Marvel Cinematic Universe.

One aspect the six-episode series will explore is the consequences of the African-American Falcon (Anthony Mackie) having been handed Captain America’s shield at the end of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”Falcon’s turn in the famous stars-and-stripes costume is just the latest in an increasingly wide range of black superheroes, and could be a big symbolic step forward.“Captain America was conceived to intentionally represent the nation, to literally embody it, and America’s self-conception has always been presented as white — as well as male, straight, able-bodied and so on,”.

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