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Those vaunted time constraints, per usual! Check out the latest episode of Afronerd Radio’s Grindhouse airing this Sunday at 6 p.m. eastern on the BTalk 100 internet broadcasting platform. Join your highly coveted AFROnerdist hosts as they discuss the following issues:  When it rains it pours, people!  The world of sports and entertainment lost two icons that were post Civil Rights contemporaries, sports phenom, Bill Russell and Star Trek’s original Uhura, Nichelle Nichols.  Let’s discuss their lives and socio-political impact; Will Smith makes a more formal stemenet and apology to Chris Rock via his YouTube page post “The Slap”:

 Hopefully, we will have an opportunity to afddress alleged wokeness in comics from the past to the present:

the Milestone Generations documentary made it to HBO Max and hopefully, the audience gets a chance to view the past, present and future of the legendary BIPOC comic book publishing imprint; 

The UK comic fanzine, Bleeding Cool receives criticism for its coverage of the Rippaverse/Eric July phenomenon; the Obi Wan Star Wars character may be getting an LGBTQ “makeover” via a forthcoming novel series;  word has it that the upcoming Marvels movie starring three super-powered heroines (Captain Marvel, Ms, Marvel and Photon) appears not to be faring well when before screen test audiences; is it time for a Deep Space Nine reboot, courtesy of Paramount Studios a la Picard or Strange New Worlds? And lastly, our thoughts about legendary action star, Sylvester Stallone portraying a “cape” in Amazon’s Samaritan:

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