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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. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
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We speak with Karen Seneferu, about The Black Woman is God, a multidisciplinary exhibition, celebrating the Black female presence as the highest spiritual form. Later r&b artist and actor Martin Luther stops by to chat about the SFJAZZ Collective. This year, the SFJAZZ Collective will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of both Sly & The … Continued
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We speak with Jared Ball about his book, “I Mix What I Like” and how some of the key concepts applicable to 2019.
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We speak with Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change about the battle against Facebook and political disinformation. And we speak with Talib Kweli about his fight against American Descendents of Slavery (ADOS), co-founder wearing MAGA hat, ADOS’ Anti-Immigrant Stance. Media Bias/Fact Check
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We speak with artist/activist Cenzi about escalated tensions in Chile. We also speak with Sura of Oakland Not for Sale about the police beating of parents, teachers and students at the school board meeting. a link to view the OUSD meeting and civil action. Click here.
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Michael Hutchinson talks about police attacking parents at school board meeting in Oakland. Lateefah Simon discusses B.A.R.T’s ban on busking and panhandling and a look at America’s War on the Poor with Poor News Network.
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We speak with Paul Anthony of Full Force. Full Force is an American group of R&B and hip hop singers and producers from Brooklyn, New York.
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We speak with Candice Elder, Founder and Executive Director of The East Oakland Collective and Maowunyo de Asis aka ‘Needa B,’ Founder of The Village in Oakland Needa B and Candace about demolition of homeless encampment on High Street in Oakland, California.
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We speak with Chilean Hip Hop artist Ana Tijoux about what’s going on in Chile. We talk with former City Council Member Wilson Riles about him being brutalized by police in Oakland, California.
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On today’s program we look at the upcoming marijuana tax vote on equity. As of 2019, 33 states and Washington, D.C., had passed laws legalizing or decriminalizing medical marijuana; an additional 13 states had legalized the use of cannabis oil, one of the non-psychoactive ingredients found in marijuana, for medical purposes. Seventeen of the states … Continued
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Greg Palast talks about the PG&E blackout being a blackmail tactic and ongoing voter suppression throughout the U.S. Greg Palast has been called the “most important investigative reporter of our time — up there with Woodward and Bernstein” (The Guardian). In September 2016, before US Presidential Elections, Palast released his movie, The Best Democracy Money Can … Continued
