‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ reboot to feature African-American lead. See story here. https://wgntv.com/2018/07/22/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-reboot-to-feature-african-american-lead/
According to WGN-TV Buffy lives.
The supernatural drama “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” will be getting a reboot with an African-American actress in the lead role, a Fox 21 Television Studios spokesperson confirmed to CNN.
“Like our world, it will be richly diverse, and like the original, some aspects of the series could be seen as metaphors for issues facing us all today,” producers on the project told Deadline, which first reported news of the “Buffy” reboot.
Only time will tell if it will achieve the success of the classic Back in the Day film 'Blacula".