4:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS
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.
Chris Hedges shows us in America: The Farewell Tour, a country that should Shame us, a land of rampant and deadly drug addiction, of escape into gambling with slots online and pornography, of xenophobic scapegoating – a country where the super rich exploit the poor and vulnerable. He is calling us out for having become a corporate state … Continued
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools – with its emphasis on great men in high places – to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as … Continued
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the … Continued
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
We speak with local activist Rico Pabon and Frankie Ramos about Hurricanes and the aftermath of Puerto Rico. later we speak with Civil Rights attorney Leslie Pearl about the Brett Kavanaugh process.
we speak with playwright Paul Flores about surviving the US immigration and justice systems. And later we speak with Ensemble Mik Nawooj about reimagining humanity. Photo Credit by Joan Osato
Davey speaks with Eriel Tchekwie Deranger about the connections between her region and the global biosphere already in the throes of climate change-induced cataclysms. Eriel is also the founder of Indigenous Climate Action, Canada’s only Indigenous-led climate justice organization, Indigenous Climate Action, is welcoming Eriel Tchekwie Deranger as the organization’s first Executive Director. Deranger was … Continued
We speak with Sara Mokuria, the co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality about the police involved death of Botham Shem Jean. Later Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist stops by to discuss True Skool Events.
Over the weekend Bay Area Black Journalists hosted panel discussion on Media and Black Images. The panel included local media figures, Christine Ayers of KPIX and Armand from KBLX. It also had Van Latham of TMZ and P Frank of TV One.
Dorsey Nunn of Legal Services with Children speaks on the ongoing Prison Strike and his new center. Later we speak with ATL based artist Sa Roc.
