Picard!; Is Canon Important?; October Faction; Grammys Lie!, TheGrind 6pm

Listen to new episode of Afronerd Radio's Grindhouse podcast-airing every Sunday at 6pm eastern.  Join your friendly neighborhood podcasting team as they unpack about the following issues: the highly anticipated first episode of CBS All Access' Picard premiered this past week and we give our impressions; stemming from a recent Twitter discussion:  Is it important for comic book/sci-fi transalations to stick to canon in order for those films to be successful?; speaking of graphic novel translations (IDW), Netflix' October Faction also hit the streaming service a few days ago; it appears that the Recording Academy's recent firing of their CEO is unraveling alleged shenanigans regarding the Grammys' voting process for artists in the music industry; still more fall out from actress, Gabrielle Union's firing from America's Go Talent-allegedly fellow AGT cast member, Terry Crews is not supporting her racial/sexist claims (perhaps turnabout is fair play a la her non support of Nate Parker); Lastly, the Associated Press (AP) apologizes for editing a picture of  African climate control activist, Vanessa Nakate when standing next to a cadre of white colleagues including Greta Thunberg.  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.