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From the innovative minds of social media influencer Jamie Broadnax, creator of the Black Girl Nerds website and host of the BGN Podcast, and unapologetic “blerd” blogger Stephanie Williams, host of The Lemonade Show, comes a brand new weekly podcast called Misty Knight’s Uninformed Afro. The show is dedicated exclusively to the discussion of the Black female superhero and is hitting podcast streams everywhere February 1, 2017. The show seeks to carve a new landscape in the podcast genre as well as produce content about an often overlooked and underserved fanbase.
"I wanted to take podcasting to another level with having a fun, yet informative discussion about Black superheroines," Broadnax said in a news release. "We incorporate media clips as well as reference specific comic issues with titles, dates, and creators behind each book discussed. We're here to shed light on these women in a way that hasn't quite been done before."
The idea for the show was sparked by a simple tweet made by Williams, lamenting the lack of Black female superheroes depicted in comics which not only went viral, but sparked an avalanche of responses across social media, both positive and negative, and often uninformed. As a result, Broadnax and Williams both realized that although thousands of their followers on social media are familiar with Black female comic book characters like Storm, many have never heard of Misty Knight, Monica Rambeau, Amanda Waller, Vixen or the Dora Milaje.
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The Misty Knight’s Uniformed Afro Podcast is about to change that. The show’s weekly episodes aim to educate as well as celebrate the unsung heroic Black women in comics by featuring some of the hosts’ favorite superheroines as well as highlighting many of the artists and writers who create these stories.
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Just like the podcast title, (a fun twist on William’s own twitter name “MistyKnightsTwistout”) the new podcast’s goal is to not only entertain but to also educate and to become a valuable resource of information about Black female superheroes within the pop-culture and comic book genres.
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/mkuapodcast/mkua-podcast-promo-jamie">Listen To A Preview Of The Podcast! </a>
<strong>The Misty Knight’s Uninformed Afro Podcast will be available for streaming on iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher starting February 1, 2017.</strong>
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