Image via WikipediaThe pioneering work of black cartoonist Dwayne Glenn McDuffie is captured weekly on the Cartoon Network. Because of McDuffie, the Justice League doesn’t just include a white Batman and Superman anymore, but black and female heroes too. Also in McDuffie’s lineup is the Blood Syndicate, a crime-fighting group of men and women that includes blacks, Asians and Latinos. His character Virgil Hawkins, the alter ego of his most popular comic hero, "Static Shock," is named after the black man who fought to be admitted to University of Florida law school in 1949 and became their first black law student in 1958. Hawkins desegregated all of Florida’s public universities.
McDuffie, the cartoonist behind it all, died on Feb. 21st - the day after his 49th birthday - during surgery. CONTINUE....
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