Anthony Mackie is officially making his film debut as the first Black Captain America in Captain America: Brave New World. The new Marvel film hit theaters on Valentine’s Day and opened with $ ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, Anthony Mackie officially stepped into the role of the first Black Captain America in the highly anticipated film Captain America: Brave New World. This groundbreaking moment ...

The idea of a Black man as the patriotic superhero was introduced in 1998 by writer Mark Waid in the comic book “Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty,” where, according to Waid, Sam Wilson ...

It feels like as the MCU’s first Black Captain America, he’s expected to be perfectly calm, always composed, and never particularly threatening in the way other heroes — like the Black ...

Sam’s transformation into the Captain could have easily been the M.C.U.’s version of “The Blind Side,” a tale of a Black man’s triumph under the tutelage of the true, original white hero.