Republican leader Kevin McCarthy struggles to secure House Speaker support. More storms expected to deluge rain soaked Northern California. Ukrainian missle strike on Russian military base kills at least dozens of soldiers. Thousands of mourners view body of Pope Benedict 16th at Vatican.
Today on the show: A Native American New Years Reflection with American Indian Movement co-founder Bill Means. Means is also the co-founder of the American Indian Treaty Council and an eye witness to the FBI siege at Wounded Knee fifty years ago.
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Whatever your New Year’s resolutions are, we all know that the hard part is keeping ourselves motivated. In fact, according to one recent survey, about 60 percent of us make New Year’s resolutions, but only 8 percent actually follow through on them in the long term. In this episode, we’ll talk with an expert in … Continued
A twentieth-anniversary edition of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by the UCLA-based historian Robin D. G. Kelley, recently came out. Kelley spoke about his book shortly after it was published. Kelley later joined the program to talk about Aimé Césaire, one of the thinkers featured in Freedom Dreams. (Encore presentation.) Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: … Continued
Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.
Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Her new book, KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history; awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology; selected as one of 2021’s 100 Notable Books by … Continued
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We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the … Continued
