Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio Series: Education of The Black Child with Lateefah Simon and Hodari Davis Ep. 2

We speak with Lateefah Simon and Hodari B. Davis about the education inequalities and the impacts on Black students. Guests: Lateefah Simon is a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice in Oakland and the Bay Area. She has been the President of Akonadi Foundation since 2016. That same year—driven by Oscar Grant’s death—she … Continued


How best to understand the violence and discrimination directed against queer and trans people of color? Eric A. Stanley considers these phenomena through multiple lens. He brings up chattel slavery, commodification, biocapital, pharmaceutical industry practices, LGBT activism, and what he calls cellular labor to elucidate the nature and consequences of racialized anti-trans/queer violence. Eric Stanley, … Continued


On today’s show: 0:08 – We speak with David Phillips (@David_Philipps), a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times  correspondent covering the U.S. military, about the coverup of a U.S. airstrike in Syria which resulted in civilian deaths. 0:33 – We speak with Tim Redmond (@timredmondsf), founder and editor of 48hills.org, about the  upcoming retirement of House … Continued