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It’s like a jungle sometimes, fellow AFROnerdists! Welcome to the latest edition of Afronerd Radio’s The Mid Week in Review cyber-broadcast, airing every Wednesday at 8 p.m. eastern on BTalk 100. The topics du jour this (mid) week are as follows: thoughts about the concept of Black Music Month and how the culture treats and or curates the African American (and diasporic) contributions of music performers-past and present; an offshoot of the BMM discussion, entails a piece from Ultimateclassicrock.com highlighting overlooked songs from the late Minneapolis music icon, Prince music catalog; recent reports are affirming an uptick in enrollment to HBCUs; the scion of the current POTUS (President Joe Biden), Hunter Biden has some “splaining” to do for purportedly using the infamous n-word in recently released texts with his attorney; the highly anticipated Disney+ Loki series was released today and we give you our first impressions of episode one; rumor has it that actor, Tenoch Huerta has been cast as Namor Mckenzie in the forthcoming Black Panther 2-Wakanda Forever MCU film; Dburt checked out the new Disney+ short, Us Again wishing it was a longer, fully fleshed out film (or series);
Screenrant.com interviewed filmmaker, Todd Thompson concerning his Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA documentary;
Zack Snyder hints that he would consider an anime to film translation of Dragon Ball Z, if given the opportunity during an interview with Tyrone Magnus; is the Blue Beetle film now destined for HBO Max? And is that a good thing? Lastly, thoughts about the new Boom Studios comic series, Basilisk.
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