Hard Knock Radio

Haiti Update and Working The Roots

We speak with Jacqueline Lugman with the Black Alliance for Peace about Haiti’s political landscape and foreign influence. And later we speak with Michele Lee about her book, Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing. Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1fm @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a … Continued


Background Briefing

Background Briefing – July 1, 2024

If Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? We begin with Biden’s disastrous debate performance on Thursday and the chorus of calls from nervous Democrats to resign that followed. While it is clear that Biden … Continued


About Health

7/1/24 But You Look So Normal

Join Nurse Rona and her guest Claudia Marseille, author of the newly released memoir, But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found In A Hearing World.  Her story of severe hearing loss from birth is one of courage and persistence as well as shame and struggle.


The Ralph Nader Radio Hour

An Undertaker in Gaza

We focus once again on the ongoing genocide in Gaza with Delinda Hanley, executive editor of the “Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.” She tells the heartrending story of an undertaker in Gaza who, since October 8th, has had to bury over 17,000 people. Then, Ralph welcomes back retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson of the Quincy … Continued


Law & Disorder

Palestine Post: Addressing the Lebanese Border & Report from the West Bank

On this week’s Palestine Post, we speak with Rami Khouri,a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut, and a journalist and author with 50 years of experience covering the Middle East; we also speak with Brendan Maslauskas-Dunn, an independent reporter who recently returned to the US from the West Bank. This week’s Resistance … Continued