Black Lightning is back, and The CW’s got him. Check out this new trailer for the upcoming Black Lightning TV show. The newest D.C. Comics-inspired series will premiere mid-season on The CW.

Cress Williams stars in Black Lightning as Jefferson Pierce, a superhero-turned-principal, who resumes fighting crime when the local gang, The One Hundred, menaces the streets of New Orleans. The CW cast also includes Nafessa Williams, China Anne McClain, and Christine Adams.

Black Lightning First Look Trailer | The CW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZpJeuXo2CY

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Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.

Nine years ago, Pierce was a hero of a different sort. Gifted with the superhuman power to harness and control electricity, he used those powers to keep his hometown streets safe as the masked vigilante Black Lightning. However, after too many nights with his life on the line, and seeing the effects of the damage and loss that his alter ego was inflicting on his family, he left his Super Hero days behind and settled into being a principal and a dad.

Choosing to help his city without using his superpowers, he watched his daughters Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Anne McClain) grow into strong young women, even though his marriage to their mother, Lynn (Christine Adams), suffered. Almost a decade later, Pierce’s crime-fighting days are long behind him… or so he thought. But with crime and corruption spreading like wildfire, and those he cares about in the crosshairs of the menacing local gang The One Hundred, Black Lightning returns – to save not only his family, but also the soul of his community.

 

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