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Former Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain has died after weeks of battling the coronavirus, a statement posted on his personal website on Thursday confirmed.

“You’re never ready for the kind of news we are grappling with this morning. But we have no choice but to seek and find God’s strength and comfort to deal with it,” the post read. “Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away.”

Cain was 74.

Earlier this month, the businessman and presidential candidate had been hospitalized due to the virus. When he was first hospitalized, his team noted that it is not clear how Cain contracted the virus, as he “did a lot of traveling” prior to his hospitalization.

However, before he tested positive, Cain, who is also the former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, attended Donald Trump’s indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla.

“We honestly have no idea where he contracted it. I realize people will speculate about the Tulsa rally, but Herman did a lot of traveling the past week. I don’t think there’s any way to trace this to the one specific contact that caused him to be infected. We’ll never know,” Cain’s website editor Dan Calabrese noted at the time.

In the post announcing Cain’s death, Calabrese revealed that the former presidential hopeful had experienced trouble breathing and that “it became clear pretty quickly that he was in for a battle”

Cain is survived by his wife, Gloria, his children Melanie and Vincent, and his grandchildren.

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E nle o ("hello in Yoruba language), to our staunch Afronerd Radio listeners.  Welcome to another fact finding mission dubbed The Mid Week in Review-airing this Wednesday at 8pm, courtesy of BTalk 100.  Join your "ever lovin" AFROnerdist broadcasters as they unravel the following (mid) weekly mysteries:  we continue to decipher more pop culture blerdy/nerdy revelations coming out of this past weekend's first virtual SDCC Comic Con @Home event spurred on by current coronavirus circumstances; and as expected, it appears that "Hollywood East" dba NYC, is looking to create a virtual NY Comic Con too; picking up where we left off, there were still other topics we failed to address via last Sunday's Grindhouse show; an Atlantablackstar.com piece reports that investors are subsidizing African startups just not the ones created or helmed by black folk; Arkansas Senator, Tom Cotton has caused quite a stir with his remarks about US slavery being a "necessary evil":




thoughts about the shooting of rap artist, Megan Thee Stallion and how it really unpacks the notion of larger karmic issues in current corporate black pop music; more musings about the exhibition fight scheduled between retired boxing giants Mike Tyson and Roy Jones, Jr.; just what was behind the budding "comicsgate" controversy involving graphic novelist, Tom King (Rorschach) and illustrator, Jae Lee; yet another new comic hits the speculators market and it's Catwoman #23 (guess who the new character reveal is this time);



And lastly, maybe it was kismet that as soon as Dburt was revisiting a '17 Vulture article entitled, "Why Can't Black Witches Get Some Respect in Popular Culture?", legendary actress, Angela Bassett lowkey pitched a prequel for her portrayal of famed New Orleans priestess, Marie Laveau in American Horror Story via twitter.  Call in LIVE at 508-645-0100.


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AMC’s NOS4A2 had a virtual panel at Comic-Con@Home to showcase its second season. Full media alert is below along with the link to the panel while it lasts. Are you a fan? Let us know in the comments!

NOS4A2 – Season Two

• The sixth episode of NOS4A2’s second season airs Sunday, July 26 at 10:00pm ET/9c on AMC and BBC AMERICA.

• NOS4A2’s second season picks up eight years after the events of season one. Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings) remains more determined than ever to destroy Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto). Charlie, having faced his own mortality, emerges desperate for revenge against Vic. This time, he sets his sights on the person who means most to Vic – her eight-year-old son Wayne. The race for Wayne’s soul sends Vic and Charlie on a high-speed collision course, forcing both to confront the mistakes of their pasts in order to secure a hold on Wayne’s future. The series’ second season stars Emmy^®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto and rising star Ashleigh Cummings, along with Jahkara Smith, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Virginia Kull, Jonathan Langdon, Ashley Romans, Jason David and Mattea Conforti.

• Based on Joe Hill’s best-selling novel of the same name, NOS4A2 is executive produced by showrunner Jami O’Brien (Fear the Walking Dead, Hell on Wheels) and Hill. The series is produced by AMC Studios in association with Tornante Television.

Comic-Con@Home 2020 Panel

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So, it appears that the Disneyland Resort is pushing the hotel reservations to August 16 and beyond. Guests who currently hold reservations before August 15 can either move their reservation to a future date or cancel outright. Disney will contact those who don’t modify them on their own, and give them the opportunity to rebook their travel. At press time, reservations were available for the Paradise Pier Hotel and Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel starting August 16. Oh boy! Prices start at $352 per night at the Paradise Pier Hotel and $613 at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel. Those prices are crazy! Anyway, Disney earlier indicated that the Disneyland hotel would reopen after the other two hotels, and is not currently booking reservations prior to October 1, 2020 for that property. This information came from the Mouse Planet.

In other news…  Disneyland has announced that the Oogie Bogie Bash at Disneyland Park has been cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. I feel bad for Disney Halloween fans because they were really looking forward to going to the party. But I think It’s the right decision to cancel it. Preparing for Oogie Boogie Bash, which typically begins in mid-September, takes a substantial amount of planning and coordination. The after-hours Halloween event — which runs on select nights in September and October — is one of the few times of the year when older kids and adults can wear costumes in the theme park. This information came from the Orange Country website.

Over at Disney World, the cast members have started to put up signs to remind people to wear face coverings at all times except for eating or drinking and you are not allowed to drink and walk at the same time.

Stay tuned for Disney updates.

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