MIT’s admissions teaser features the new Iron Man — a black female superhero

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One of Marvel’s newest superheroes is delivering to eager high school students news about whether they’ll become part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s latest batch of incoming freshmen.

Each year, the Cambridge school releases a creative video to announce when admissions decisions will be posted online, and at what time.

This year’s video features the character Riri Williams, a black teenage girl who the comic book franchise announced in July would take over for Tony Stark as the next “Iron Man.” Williams, who in the Marvel universe is an MIT student, is known as “Ironheart.”

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