Thanks to my dad’s influence, my childhood was filled with an assortment of Black superheroes, both real and imaginary. There were the obvious ones, like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The fictional ones were especially eclectic, with names like Sun-Man, Meteor Man, and M.A.N.T.I.S.“M.A.N.T.I.S.” was a one-season television show in the 1990s that…