On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with community activist and journalist Jesse Strauss and longtime civil rights attorney Walter Riley to discuss their new book, Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley. The conversation explored Rileys decades of movement work, the importance of preserving radical history, and the lessons todays … Continued
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We’ve spun a lot of records and told a lot of stories—but there’s still more to discover. And speaking of… Join Denny Daughters on Friday, June 19, at 2:30 pm for another installment of Musicians With Disabilities. This time, Denny explores the stories and music of artists affected by blindness, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease. Discover how these performers continued to create and leave their mark on … Continued
Part one of Making Contact‘s series on safe drinking water in California visits the Central Valley community of East Orosi, where residents have lived with contaminated drinking water for decades. Through the voices of community members and advocates, the episode explores the fight for clean water, environmental justice, and the human toll of failing infrastructure. … Continued
First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into big techs hold on higher ed – namely their aims to surveil, extract and breach. Nolan digs into a recent hacking scandal, how big tech aligns with the likes of Epstein and a dark history of eugenics, big tech propaganda … Continued
Happy Juneteenth! Today on The Talkies we revisit some great interviews from the archives: Tribute to Berkeley’s legendary Hate Man Why Buddhism is True Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright connects the dots, from evolutionary psychology to the science and power of Buddhism. Wit, a hallmark of his writing, makes the medicine go down. During the … Continued
This week’s Economic Update is devoted to the why and how of China’s passage from abject poverty and colonial humiliation to become – in unprecedented, record historical time – a superpower economy challenging the US today. Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program … Continued
On today’s show: Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said “Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted … Continued
On today’s show, San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard is still a superfund site and still poisoning the residents. We’ll start the hour with Arieann Harrison and Malik Washington of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation and Bradley Angel of Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice. Then the exhaustive, bombshell reporting by investigative journalist Greg … Continued
[0:08] Robin D. G. Kelley. Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. [rebroadcast].
