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The Yuletide edition of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review (MWIR) podcast returns with even more to discuss this Wednesday at 7pm eastern. The topics to be covered are: Facebook reportedly shared their users' private messages with a myriad of fellow tech companies-Amazon,Netflix and Microsoft with issues of consent being in question; another DNWB (Doing Nothing While Black) case comes into focus.....this time a Black man attempting to cash a modest (and authenticated) check at a local Bank raised suspicions and therefore a requisite 911 call; perhaps spoiler talk for the newly released Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse; legendary actress/director, Penny Marshall passes due to diabetic complications; more deliberation on whether whites (or white models) can wear Black Panther movie (or by extension Black cultural IPs) or not; what do you do if you are an African-American football player with a recent multi million dollar contract who is about to marry a young woman who might be a racist-we ponder the question; Pulitzer prize winning author, Alice Walker is under fire for supporting an allegedly anti-semitic writer; Disney exec hints that we might still see Marvel Netflix shows on Disney+ in the near future;  Lastly, superstar, Will Smith shows us his "human" form in the forthcoming Aladdin reboot and twitter clowns.  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.

Dr. Gladys West, a former mathematician who was instrumental in the creation of GPS, was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame earlier this month. Considered one of our nation’s “Hidden Figures,” West worked on computations for the U.S. military in the 1950s and 1960s, which led to several technological […]

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Smart shoes don’t come cheap, however, Nike is designing a new self-lacing sneaker that’s more affordable and offers all the high-tech perks. On Wednesday, Nike CEO Mark Parker announced the self-lacing sneakers in […]

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