A short excerpt from a 2019 interview with James Lapine, who collaborated with Stephen Sondheim on “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Into The Woods.” Sunday in the Park with George plays at Shotgun Players Ashby Stage through January 31, 2026. “Into the Woods” plays at San Francisco Playhouse through January 17, 2026. Photo: Richard Wolinsky and James Lapine, 2019.
On Hard Knock Radio, I sat down with Jelani Cobb”dean of Columbias Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and a thinker rooted in Hip Hops habit of connecting dots across time. We talked about his new book, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here (2012″2025). I called … Continued
Police Against the Movement: How Local Cops Sabotage Freedom Struggles On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Joshua Davis, a history professor at the University of Baltimore and author of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. The conversation digs into a … Continued
Davey D opens Hard Knock Radio by framing housing and policing as intertwined crises, then centers the conversation on Rahim Kurwas book Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing. Kurwa begins with the story of Michelle Ross, a Section 8 voucher holder who moved from Los Angeles to Palmdale in 2008. Once there, she … Continued
The conversation opens with Davey D breaking down a quiet but devastating move by the Trump Education Department that declared key careers like nursing and teaching as “non professional” for federal loans. He frames it as a slick attack on Black and Brown communities, women, and working class folks who rely on those pathways for … Continued
The interview centers on the book Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation and the broader work of the Visualizing Palestine collective. You open by situating the book in a moment of media consolidation, censorship, and classroom bans, framing it as both an archive and a living tool for narrative struggle. Editor Jessica … Continued
Discussed in this episode: RFK Jr.’s recently-reconfigured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has reversed a nearly 35-year-old recommendation that all newborns receive vaccination for Hepatitis B. Other childhood vaccinations may be next. To send us a question in advance of next week’s show, write to: [email protected] (Because of KPFA’s fundraising schedule, we won’t be able to … Continued
On today’s Palestine Post, we speak with Hatem Bazian, a Palestinian-American academic and activist. He is a teaching professor in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California,Berkeley and co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts … Continued
Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025), the long-time publisher of Heyday Books in Berkeley, who died on August 20, 2025 at the age of 84, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky in the KPFA Studios on November 21, 2014. He was the founder and publisher of Heyday Books, the renownedy non-profit publishing house located in Berkeley, in 1974 and stayed until he retired in 2015. He was the author and editor of several books, most notably The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco – Monterey Bay Area, along with magazines and other periodicals.
On this episode, we speak with LeaJay Harper about the City of Oakland’s encampment abatement proposal that threatens unhoused residents. LeaJay is a resident of Wood Street for 10 years now living in a solution to homelessness called Homefullness using her voice to represent for her family still outside. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in … Continued
