The road to showcasing black heroes on the big screen is a long, winding curve. Since the release of the X-Men series in 2000, the way has been paved mostly on the brawny shoulders of Hugh Jackman, Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth, portraying Wolverine, Iron Man and Thor, respectively. But black heroes have remained best friends or right-hand men or women to the main white heroes. And while blerds were excited by the arrival of the Netflix series “Luke Cage” in 2016, a black hero for the big screen has remained elusive until now.