Salutations, folks!  Pull up a seat and listen to our Mid Week in Review broadcast this Wwednesday at 7pm! The topics to be discussed are: Numero magazine highlights the symbolism of the  "African Queen"  by using a White model in blackface makeup; an Australian billionaire plans to make a replica of the Titanic for business purposes; is it "ok" for a HS teacher to produce an all White version of the Wiz (without any Black student body participation); more Playstation 4 news-could this be Sony's final foray with the video game console concept? and lastly, a discussion of any additional and/or lingering Oscar award, racial, tech stories that the Podcast Avengers might have overlooked this past week.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Our systems may have been down (last week) but not our spirits, folks! Let's try this AGAIN, shall we? Welcome to Sunday's Grindhouse edition of Afronerd Radio.  Up first at 6pm, there's The Comic Shoppe featuring Captain Kirk, Dburt and Daryll B. where they will be discussing the following topics:  Playstation 4 gets a NY reveal...sort of; beta testing for Google glasses starts for a mere $1500(!!!!); DC52 gets its own version of World's Finest, courtesy of Greg Pak and Jae Lee; more reflections on the late and legendary comic writer, Dwayne McDuffie and his problems with being a "Black" writer and lastly, our thoughts on the recent 1st releases of Justice League of America and Nova.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Unfortunately, we were unable to cover our Mid Week topics due to a PC breakdown..so let's go for "round 2" tonight at 7pm.  Listen to Afronerd Radio with Captain Kirk and Dburt as they unpack the following current event laden concerns:  weird racial stories (a Black infant gets slapped and called the n-word on a plane by an irate passenger;  actor, Alec Baldwin has an alleged racial meltdown and comedienne, Lisa Lampanelli tweets the n-word to Girls, Lena Dunham); Shadow & Act film critic, Sergio Mims pays a visit to give us the entertainment rundown; legendary music mogul, Clive Davis makes some interesting (if not surprising) revelations in his latest memoir and lastly, a recent Black Enterprise article ponders the need for minority (especially Black athletes) investing in tech startups.

Our systems may have been down (last week) but not our spirits, folks! Let's try this AGAIN, shall we? Welcome to Sunday's Grindhouse edition of Afronerd Radio.  Up first at 6pm, there's The Comic Shoppe featuring Captain Kirk, Dburt and Daryll B. where they will be discussing the following topics:  Playstation 4 gets a NY reveal...sort of; beta testing for Google glasses starts for a mere $1500(!!!!); DC52 gets its own version of World's Finest, courtesy of Greg Pak and Jae Lee; more reflections on the late and legendary comic writer, Dwayne McDuffie and his problems with being a "Black" writer and lastly, our thoughts on the recent 1st releases of Justice League of America and Nova.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Unfortunately, we were unable to cover our Mid Week topics due to a PC breakdown..so let's go for "round 2" tonight at 7pm.  Listen to Afronerd Radio with Captain Kirk and Dburt as they unpack the following current event laden concerns:  weird racial stories (a Black infant gets slapped and called the n-word on a plane by an irate passenger;  actor, Alec Baldwin has an alleged racial meltdown and comedienne, Lisa Lampanelli tweets the n-word to Girls, Lena Dunham); Shadow & Act film critic, Sergio Mims pays a visit to give us the entertainment rundown; legendary music mogul, Clive Davis makes some interesting (if not surprising) revelations in his latest memoir and lastly, a recent Black Enterprise article ponders the need for minority (especially Black athletes) investing in tech startups.

Straight to the point with no chaser!  Join Dburt and Captain Kirk this Wednesday at 7pm (EST) for our Mid Week in Review broadcast of Afronerd Radio! The topics up for grabs are: weird racial stories (a Black infant gets slapped and called the n-word on a plane by an irate passenger;  actor, Alec Baldwin has an alleged racial meltdown and comedienne, Lisa Lampanelli tweets the n-word to Girls, Lena Dunham); Shadow & Act film critic, Sergio Mims pays a visit to give us the entertainment rundown; legendary music mogul, Clive Davis makes some interesting (if not surprising) revelations in his latest memoir and lastly, a recent Black Enterprise article ponders the need for minority (especially Black athletes) investing in tech startups.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Straight to the point with no chaser!  Join Dburt and Captain Kirk this Wednesday at 7pm (EST) for our Mid Week in Review broadcast of Afronerd Radio! The topics up for grabs are: weird racial stories (a Black infant gets slapped and called the n-word on a plane by an irate passenger;  actor, Alec Baldwin has an alleged racial meltdown and comedienne, Lisa Lampanelli tweets the n-word to Girls, Lena Dunham); Shadow & Act film critic, Sergio Mims pays a visit to give us the entertainment rundown; legendary music mogul, Clive Davis makes some interesting (if not surprising) revelations in his latest memoir and lastly, a recent Black Enterprise article ponders the need for minority (especially Black athletes) investing in tech startups.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Our discourse continues.....welcome to the vaunted Grindhouse edition of Afronerd Radio! Double your pleasure...yin versus yang...yada yada yada!  Pull up a seat and listen to The Comic Shoppeat 6pm EST and then Afronerd Radioat 7pm.  It appears that our last few shows were especially festive so as alluded to in the aforementioned opening, our conversation continues...  Join Dburt, Captain Kirk and Daryll B as they (continue to) discuss the following: a number of internet articles are highlighting the lack of Black writers at Marvel and DC (and how the independents put those diversity stats to shame); a recent HuffPost/Black Voices blog posting puts focus on the history of the Black super heroine in comics; David Brothers of Comics Alliance provides an excellent historical timeline of the Black influence in mainstream comics and if time permits, will the quality writing of Green Lantern falter with Geoff Johns' (and his staff) departure from the book?  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620!

And then there's always Afronerd Radio airing after The Shoppeat 7pm.  Join Captain Kirk and Dburt as they shed light on some recent issues of note: picking up from last week regarding the Grammys; and speaking of music-what's the difference between Lil Wayne and a White rapping Pastor who proclaims that Jesus is his "nigga"....the answer? Not much.;  a doctoral student at  Univ. of Texas discovers a poem from the earliest documented Black published writer in the US, Jupiter Hammon and the racial divide between twitter and Pinterest users.

Our discourse continues.....welcome to the vaunted Grindhouse edition of Afronerd Radio! Double your pleasure...yin versus yang...yada yada yada!  Pull up a seat and listen to The Comic Shoppeat 6pm EST and then Afronerd Radioat 7pm.  It appears that our last few shows were especially festive so as alluded to in the aforementioned opening, our conversation continues...  Join Dburt, Captain Kirk and Daryll B as they (continue to) discuss the following: a number of internet articles are highlighting the lack of Black writers at Marvel and DC (and how the independents put those diversity stats to shame); a recent HuffPost/Black Voices blog posting puts focus on the history of the Black super heroine in comics; David Brothers of Comics Alliance provides an excellent historical timeline of the Black influence in mainstream comics and if time permits, will the quality writing of Green Lantern falter with Geoff Johns' (and his staff) departure from the book?  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620!

And then there's always Afronerd Radio airing after The Shoppeat 7pm.  Join Captain Kirk and Dburt as they shed light on some recent issues of note: picking up from last week regarding the Grammys; and speaking of music-what's the difference between Lil Wayne and a White rapping Pastor who proclaims that Jesus is his "nigga"....the answer? Not much.;  a doctoral student at  Univ. of Texas discovers a poem from the earliest documented Black published writer in the US, Jupiter Hammon and the racial divide between twitter and Pinterest users.

Giving it to our listeners straight with no chaser! Listen to The Afronerd featuring Captain Kirk broadcast this Wednesday at 7pm eastern.  Keeping it simple, Wednesday's show will essentially pick up where the team left off from the Grindhouse Sunday show-a discussion of the rogue former LA cop, Christopher Dorner including his 14 page manifesto; the notorious (and racist) Facebook page that Zuckerberg and Co. refuse to remove; an interesting op-ed by Clarence Haynes (of Black Voices) reminiscing about his fondness for comics-specifically,  Ororo Munroe (Storm) from The X-Men; The Root denotes the historical origins of the "Blerd" (Afronerd has a better ring to it, don't you think?), and lastly, our impressions of  The Grammys.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

Giving it to our listeners straight with no chaser! Listen to The Afronerd featuring Captain Kirk broadcast this Wednesday at 7pm eastern.  Keeping it simple, Wednesday's show will essentially pick up where the team left off from the Grindhouse Sunday show-a discussion of the rogue former LA cop, Christopher Dorner including his 14 page manifesto; the notorious (and racist) Facebook page that Zuckerberg and Co. refuse to remove; an interesting op-ed by Clarence Haynes (of Black Voices) reminiscing about his fondness for comics-specifically,  Ororo Munroe (Storm) from The X-Men; The Root denotes the historical origins of the "Blerd" (Afronerd has a better ring to it, don't you think?), and lastly, our impressions of  The Grammys.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.

First there was the Super Bowl and now The Grammys are upon us!  So this time we'll make an attempt at competing (but not really) against the legendary music show with our ever popular Grindhouse edition of Afronerd Radio.  Pull up a seat and listen to The Comic Shoppe this Sunday starting at 6pm.  Join Daryll B., Dburt and Captain Kirk as they pontificate on the following "nerdic" fare: the Latino Review reports that the Hulk may end up with a Planet Hulk/Avengers tie-in story or the silver screen at some point in the future; a recent Robot 6 article puts focus on the dearth of Black writers at DC and Marvel; is the JLA movie in distress?-a writer is let go and Paul Dini (Batman Animated Series, Justice League Animated) states that he wouldn't be interested in writing a live action version and lastly, a discussion of race and and animation-the Shadow & Act site highlights Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin as well as Warner Bros' controversial cartoon past.  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620!

Next up, Afronerd Radio bats second at 7pm eastern.  Captain Kirk and Dburt wax on the following topics: rogue LA cop, Christopher Dorner rampages vowing revenge against a police force he deems corrupt; quite a bit of nastiness on the part of Facebook for their refusal to remove a racist page; more on Roots Vs Django with the cast of Roots; the HufPost's Black Voices has an interesting op-ed by Clarence Haynes regarding his fondness for comics-specifically, the character Storm from The X-Men and lastly, The Root denotes the historical origins of the "Blerd" (Afronerd sounds better, doesn't it?).  Whew....so check us out post haste!