African American Flash in offing from new television series by DC comics

The 'Flash' has had a very speedy run (quite literally) as he enters a new phase as the African-American character for a television series. He has stood tall among Earth's mightiest heroes — Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman, Hawk Girl, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern. He even had a terrific run in Justice League Adventures and Justice League Unlimited as one of the 'Original Seven'. 

Wally West aka Flash — the speed demon from Justice League series may get a reboot with an African-American lineage if news reports are to be believed. Flash, one of the most loved characters from DC universe, has been an integral part of Justice League as well as his own series. Though, even inclusion of Wally West in the series is highly debated, a new Flash of African-American descent is definitely in the offing. 

Currently, Wally West has not been cast for the pilot but when executive producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg were asked by a fan about introduction of a 'Black Flash', they did not rule it out, according to ComicBook.com.  "We made the Wests African-American so that we could ultimately head in that direction, absolutely," Berlanti told the fan. 

Kreisberg  further followed it up with a confirmation and said that, Wally West was reinvented as an African-American character in part to accommodate the TV series.  "What's very cool is in the New 52 (Earth 52) they hadn't reintroduced Wally," Kreisberg said. He further added that because they were working with DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns on the show, "when they reintroduced Wally, they made him African-American. So now and forever, Kid Flash will be African-American."

Wally West was the original Kid Flash during the Silver Age in comics and became 'The Flash' following Barry Allen's death in 1985's 'Crisis on Infinite Earths'.

Currently, an altogether different kid Flash appears in Teen Titans. 

*Crisis on Two Earths: The premise of Crisis on Two Earths is borrowed from the 1964 Gardner Fox-scripted Justice League of America #29–30 entitled "Crisis on Earth-Three!" and the 2000 Grant Morrison JLA: Earth 2 graphic novel, with a heroic Lex Luthor from an alternate universe coming to the Justice League's universe for help against the Crime Syndicate.