What Can Comic Book Heroes Teach Us About Black History? A yearlong Narrative Projects series offers a fresh perspective on Black history, looking beyond the familiar lessons you may have learned in school. “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” gets at the complexities and pressures of American identity. Credit...Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios By Lauren Messman explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Before the office emptied and Times journalists retreated to their homes with their laptops, Veronica Chambers, editor of The New York Times’s Narrative Projects team, often found herself bumping into George Gene Gustines to chat about comics, a topic he has covered for The Times since 2002.