Sorghum & Spear Kickstarter; New Penny Dreadful; Discovery Short-TheGrind 6pm ET

Afronerd Radio

We're BLACK from a brief hiatus! For Sunday's Grindhouse, let's just delve into the topics, shall we? Your favorite "probably ready for prime-time podcasters" discuss the following issues: friend of the show, graphic novelist/animator, Mr. Dedren Snead, stops by to discuss his highly anticipated Kickstarter campaign for Sorghum and Spear; HBO's Penny Dreadful returns with a different story textured with Mexican-American folklore; As CBS All-Access Trekkers await the '19 premiere of Star Trek: Discovery S2, a new Discovery short, "Calypso" debuts; Idris Elba's Luther reemerges for S5 with a new trailer; ABC News gets dragged by the net for incorrectly reporting that French DJ, David Guetta is the "grandfather of electronic music"; and speaking of "fake news," Dburt has some thoughts about Black folk perhaps co-opting that term for their own purposes; and so folks globally are still not getting the "email" that blackface is racist-as a South Korean cosplayer portraying an African Overwatch character on Blizzard stream gets slammed; the Daily Beast highlights low pay for Marvel creators; Lastly, in the wake of the Wu Tang Clan's 25th anniversary release of 36 Chambers, did nerd culture save them from obsolescence? Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.