Photo Flash: The CW Shares New Photos from BLACK LIGHTNING

By: Nov. 29, 2017
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The CW Network has shared new photos for the electrifying new superhero drama BLACK LIGHTNING, making its debut on Tuesday, January 16 (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT), following a new episode of THE FLASH (8:00-9:00pm ET/PT).

As BLACK LIGHTNING begins, 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 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 SUPERHUMANpower 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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Photo Flash: The CW Shares New Photos from BLACK LIGHTNING
BLACK LIGHTNING

Photo Flash: The CW Shares New Photos from BLACK LIGHTNING
BLACK LIGHTNING

Photo Flash: The CW Shares New Photos from BLACK LIGHTNING
BLACK LIGHTNING


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