Could Hollywood’s Vision of a Black Woman President Help Make It Possible?

Could Hollywood’s Vision of a Black Woman President Help Make It Possible?

Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning featured Tom Cruise’s action hero Ethan Hunt deep-sea diving through a submarine 500 feet under the sea, swimming naked in sub-zero temperatures, and sky diving in the middle of a plane duel. And yet, perhaps the most implausible fiction was… a Black woman president of the United States?! Black male presidents in film set the stage for Barrack Obama's election. Could more depictions of Black female leaders…