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Sannu! or "Hello" in Hausa to our ever-growing and loyal Afronerd Radio listenership!  Check out a new episode of our patented Mid Week in Review broadcast-airing every Wednesday at 8 p.m. eastern on the BTalk 100 platform.  Our "grocer's fresh" topics this week are as follows: yet another horrific mass shooting has occurred in Boulder, CO and regrettably, the solutions to this peculiar U.S. phenomenon are few and far in between. We will unpack our thoughts nonetheless; Dburt mistook the trailer for Amazon's "racial horror" anthology series, Them as a Jordan Peele production, BUT it's actually under the auspices of writer, Little Marvin, and actor, Lena Waithe:

It looks like former CW Superman & Lois writer, Nadria Tucker is giving more details concerning the non-renewal of her contract; Dburt ponders how (and why) comic book writers should rehabilitate minority representation in Golden Age (1930s thru the 50s) storylines in the wake of the forthcoming release of the DC Animated film, Justice Society: World War II:

A BleedingCool.com piece highlights the failed proposal for a Jeremy Whitley (Princeless) penned Tanya Spears as Power Girl comic; HBO Max new Latinx initiative, Pa' Lante gets its close-up , but one has to ask: Why not additional focused ethnic platforms?  Lastly, if time permits, perhaps we will address some issues that were left on the cutting room floor from Sunday's Grindhouse broadcast.  

One thing that Dburt is doing (finally) is investing in cryptocurrency, courtesy of Roundlyx. We would implore our followers to investigate, discern and then explore by using our referral code: afro-87A4BF

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Sherri Shepherd says dating as a comedian is no joke.

During a conversation with guest co-host and comedian Cocoa Brown on Shepherd’s podcast Two Funny Mamas (which she hosts with Kym Whitley), the two talked about how complicated the dating game is for them with Brown saying, “People think you always want to be funny.” And if that’s not the case, then guys they encounter want to prove that they’re funny. Both women also noted that there is a belief that women comedians, because they’re funny, aren’t as feminine.

One especially interesting tidbit though from their conversation was encountering men who either wanted them to be just like they are on stage at all times, or in contrast, wanted to change the ladies because their personalities were so big. The latter was the case for Shepherd. She met a guy at a comedy show and they dated for a year.

“It was a horrible year,” she said. “‘Cause then he kept saying, ‘Why are you so loud all the time?’ When you met me I was loud. I was on stage killing. Then he was like, ‘Why you tell all your business on stage?’ He was..aw girl. It was the worst year.”

The fact that Shepherd could easily be the center of attention even when off the stage also became a problem for her ex-boyfriend.

“He didn’t get it. He didn’t get it. Like, ‘Why did we have to, when you go in the room it’s like you’re the life of the party.’ When you met me I was on stage” she said of his issues.

The star has been married twice, to Jeff Tarpley from 2001 to 2009 with whom she shares son Jeffrey, and Lamar Sally from 2011 to 2014. She pays both men child support — Sally for a child conceived via a donor egg and surrogate during their marriage. She’s said that she picked them and accepted the “consequences of bad choices” when looking for Mr. Right, but none of that has stopped her from wanting to find love again.

“I’m single and I’m open,” she said back in 2018. “I’ve been single for about four years. I think I’m ready to put my feet into the dating pool. The water’s a little cold, but I think I’m ready. Don’t send me none of your uncles. I need people with their own teeth, their own knees. Good credit. Maybe they own their own home. You know, I got a lot of little factors, but I think I’m ready to date.”

BGN interviews Millie Bobby Brown (Madison Russell) and Julian Dennison (Josh Valentine) for the Warner Bros film Godzilla vs. Kong.

Legends collide in Godzilla vs. Kong as these mythic adversaries meet in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Kong and his protectors undertake a perilous journey to find his true home, and with them is Jia, a young orphaned girl with whom he has formed a unique and powerful bond. But they unexpectedly find themselves in the path of an enraged Godzilla, cutting a swath of destruction across the globe. The epic clash between the two titans — instigated by unseen forces — is only the beginning of the mystery that lies deep within the core of the Earth.

Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf

Video Editor: Jamie Broadnax

Godzilla vs. Kong will premiere in theaters and on HBO Max March 31st.

Donald Trump has been out of office for 60 days now, and off of Twitter for a handful more. In his absence, the birds are singing, the sky is blue, and the flowers are blooming. Horrific things are still happening (as they always do), but they’re not exacerbated by the bullet train of weaponized cruelty and ignorance of his toxic administration. But there is still SO MUCH work ahead of us to undo his catastrophic presidency and to process the stress and trauma of the last four years.

The citizens of San Antonio, Texas have found a great outlet to process their feelings: punching a wax statue of Trump. Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks on Alamo Plaza has put their wax Trump in storage, because visitors could not stop punching and clawing at it. Great work, everyone!

Clay Stewart, regional manager for Ripley Entertainment, which owns the wax museum, said “When it’s a highly political figure, attacks can be a problem.” The attacks on the wax Trump figure increased during the 2020 presidential campaign, to no one’s surprise. But even moving the figure to the lobby, where employees could keep a closer eye on it, didn’t deter people from working out their rage on the figure.

But Stewart added that this kind of human-on-wax violence is an ongoing issue with the wax presidents. “We’ve always had trouble with the presidential section because no matter what president it was — Bush, Obama or Trump — they’ve all had people beat them,” Stewart said. “The ears were torn off Obama six times. And then Bush’s nose was punched in … People are just aggressive about their political party.”

“It’s a presidential figure,” said Suzanne Smagala-Potts, a spokesperson for the museum’s parent company, Ripley Entertainment. “Sometimes people will take a swipe at them, but they did that with Obama, Bush, and they’ve done it with celebrity figures as well. It’s just something that happens.”

Wax Trump is currently being repaired, but Ripley’s employees complained about the excessive costs after wax Trump demanded to go golfing at Mar-a-Lago and forced the company to pay for wax Secret Service agents to escort him (LOL no, but can you imagine?)

But wax Trump isn’t the first tribute of his family to go down in flames. That honor goes to this giant hideous statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia, which was burned in effigy.

Many took to Twitter to dunk on wax Trump/real Trump for getting his waxy ass kicked. It turns out Ripley’s, I CAN believe it!

Best headline I've seen in a long time:

"Wax museum removes Trump statue because guests keep punching it" pic.twitter.com/JfKCdSdlzC

— Walt Says Stuff (@WaltSaysStuff) March 21, 2021

Hey, if I saw a wax statue of John Tesh mixed with George Plimpton I’d scratch and punch it too! https://t.co/WhuaCHF8im

— Hussein Ibish (@Ibishblog) March 20, 2021

Madame Tussaud's in San Antonio had to remove the wax Trump figure because visitors kept punching it in the face. A security guard reports, "Sometimes we'd have to tell Melania, 'enough already.'" The Putin and Kim Jong Un figures have microchips which hiss, "Hit him again" pic.twitter.com/uQQX6ZDNOm

— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) March 19, 2021

Trump’s wax figure looks like George Plimpton cosplaying as Ric Flair. https://t.co/HYMf4o6Svc

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 18, 2021

The people have spoken https://t.co/Wqfr0NzbP1

— G. Willow Wilson (@GWillowWilson) March 19, 2021

(via San Antonio Express News, featured image: screencap/Reuters)

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