Hard Knock Radio – May 9, 2025
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.
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Talk-It-Out Radio – May 9, 2025
A how-to and what-to-do program where skilled hosts welcome guests and callers to practice empathy, mindfulness, and effective communication. Do you want tools for connection, conflict resolution, and compassion for self and others? We explore skills, knowledge and resources to empower you to connect across differences.
Today’s episodes of Making Contact and Pushing Limits are preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Christopher Bache, a professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies, speaks with C.S. Soong about his twenty-year psychedelic journey, which is described and interpreted in his book LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from … Continued
Today’s episode of Project Censored is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Nora Barrows-Friedman speaks with renown historian and author Rashid Khalidi about his work documenting the history of Palestine and his recent book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Rashid Khalidi is the author of numerous books about the Middle … Continued
Talkies – May 9, 2025
The cultural, the intellectual, the political, the spiritual — and the silly. Life as we know it, fear it, love it, question it, live it. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Twin Crises of Housing and Homelessness / The History of the Market
In this special, hour-long edition of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff delivers updates on Trump versus Harvard, Trump’s “antisemitism” maneuver, how higher education in the U.S. is becoming ever more ” business-like,” and the economics behind the depreciation of the U.S. dollar since Jan 20, 2025. Then, he interviews Mr. Rob Robinson, who is to … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – May 9, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
A Rude Awakening – May 9, 2025
An in-depth look at community affairs on a local, national and international level, with interviews and commentary. Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs.
Fund Drive Special: Josh Jackson on California’s Incredible Public Wilderness
00:08 — Josh Jackson is a writer, photographer. He advocates for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s unknown landscapes. His latest book is The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California’s Public Lands.
Democracy Now 6am – May 9, 2025
On today’s show: Leo XIV: First U.S.-Born Pope Criticized Trump/Vance on Deportations, Lack of Compassion for Immigrants Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability from New Pope: “Open Up Those Archives” “We Are Not Living. We Are Enduring.” Gaza Mother on Struggle for Food, Safety Under Israeli Blockade Tyre Nichols Case: Shock and Anger in Memphis … Continued