Kerry James Marshall’s epic black superhero

There are not many black superheroes—and even fewer that have taken the lead in their own movies. The artist Kerry James Marshall, whose retrospective opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago this month (23 April-25 September), wants to change that.
Since the late 1990s, he has been working on the comic book series Rythm Mastr, which like all his other work focuses entirely on African-American culture and subjects. The series follows a number of characters in Black Metropolis, and f