25: For comics fan staffer, Black Panther was 'life changing'

As a kid, Alfred Day would spend hours holed up indoors reading comics. He loved Batman and Superman, but the character who really spoke to him — who taught him that he could be smart and powerful — was Black Panther. Day, the director of student affairs case management at UC Berkeley, is a co-founder of Berkeley HEROES, a staff club that meets once a month to talk about comics and graphic novels on their list. In February for Black History Month, they're reading the first volume of Ta-Nehisi Coates' current Black Panther series.Read the transcript on UC Berkeley News: http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/14/the-life-changing-power-of-black-panther/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.