Representation, Family and Real-World Issues: Here's Why the 'Black Lightning' Cast Is Psyched for the Premiere
Black Lightning is booted, suited and ready to bust out of retirement.
Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a family man. A high school principal with two teenage daughters and an ex-wife, he just also happens to be a crime-fighting force to be reckoned with ... or at least he was. When his youngest runs afoul of a local gang, he will be again.
"I've been pinching myself. I don't know if it's completely sunk in that I'm about to play a superhero," Nafessa Williams (Anissa Pierce, aka Thund