She Created A Black Superhero To Inspire Black Children For Decades To Come
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Like the sun, our people radiate with power! So when her son doubted his Blackness, this superhero mother stepped in – and created something legendary!
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| 0:00.0 | The Monopoly game at McDonald's is back. |
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| 0:06.0 | And a chance to get your hands on some epic prizes. |
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| 0:11.0 | 18 plus UK ends 21st of October. |
| 0:15.0 | Selected menu items. |
| 0:16.0 | At may be required. |
| 0:17.0 | May depend on winning moment. |
| 0:18.0 | See victory rules.co. |
| 0:19.0 | . |
| 0:20.0 | Like the sun, our people radiate with power. |
| 0:23.6 | So when her son doubted his blackness, |
| 0:26.6 | this superhero mother stepped in and created something legendary. |
| 0:31.6 | This is two-minute black history. |
| 0:33.6 | What You Didn't Learn in School |
| 0:38.3 | Waila Eason's three-year-old son was playing with action figures, like usual, when he looked up to ask her a question that shook her. |
| 0:50.3 | Was it true? he asked, that he could never be a superhero because he's black? |
| 0:56.9 | Heartbroken, she had to do something. And what she did changed the lives of countless black |
| 1:03.2 | kids across the country. Easton created Sunman, a black superhero powered by the sun |
| 1:09.9 | who used his intelligence and self-confidence |
| 1:12.6 | to defeat the bad guys, a purposeful designed by Yessen to inspire the same feelings in black |
| 1:19.2 | children everywhere. But she didn't stop there. In 1985, she also created Olmec toys and developed an entire line of toys so that black children |
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