Hey, folks.  As the Brooklyn Afropunk Festival approaches, let's just get to the point, shall we?  Listen to our latest episode of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review (MWIR) airing this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST.  Listen to your hosts, Dburt and Capt. Kirk as they unpack on this (mid) week's impactful concerns: famed journalist and EMERGE magazine editor, George Curry passes; Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump makes a plea to potential Black votes (before mostly White audiences); our impressions over the fallout regarding the discovery that Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte lied about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio and how his standard of behavior appears less critiqued compared to his Black Olympic counterparts; basketball legend, Kobe Bryant unveils his new 100m Venture Capital Fund (but the AtlantaBlackStar asks will it benefit Black entrepreneurs;  in SJW/political correctness news, Princeton University's HR department enacts a policy forbidding the usage of the term "man" as a basic descriptor; more on the Zendaya Coleman in Spiderman casting situation; And lastly, addressing a topic left on the table from aprevious episode-Dburt waxes about the truth of the Black man as an endangered species mindset (ex. recent books by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill and new author Mychal Denzel Smith).  Call the hosts live at 646-915-9620.