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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.
The Long Shadow by Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher Of all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and destructive as racism. In this powerful documentary, the filmmakers, both privileged daughters of the South, who were haunted by their families slave owning pasts, passionately seek the hidden truth and the untold stories of how … Continued
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON – What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.
‘GIMMIE MINES – REPARATIONS’ presented by DA COTTON PICKAS is a film about reparations: why it is owed, who decided a payment should be made, when that decision was made, why it has not been paid, why society feels it has and why some feel descendants of slaves don’t deserve compensation. Opponents of reparations argue that … Continued
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
