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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.
We speak with Nicole Klaymoon and Amikaeyla Gaston about the new play Music of the Actualized Child, interweaves street dance, documentary theater, live song, and video art to engage a critical conversation around the school-to-prison pipeline, childhood trauma, race, and healing. Shakti Butler’s new film, Healing Justice, serves as a springboard for visceral movement and musical … Continued
We speak with Tim Redmond of 48 Hills about San Francisco’s Mayoral Race. Tim provides listeners with a comprehensive understanding of each candidate. Later we speak with Ren, The Vinyl Archaeologist about happenings in the Bay Area.
Ben McBride discusses developing a new Police Conduct Bill. And later Tony Coleman of OneFam / Bikes 4 Life talks about their fight to stay in West Oakland.
We do a musical and spoken word reflection about Memorial Day and the fight for freedom by Black folks.
Filmmaker Scott Noble of Metanoia-Films has just released the 4th part in the 6-part series called Plutocracy: Political Repression in the U.S.A. Income inequality has become a key hot button issue in the modern day political spectrum. While these economic and class divides seem more pronounced than ever before, the impressive 4 DVD documentary series … Continued
In this blistering memoir and expose, Varoufakis blows the lid off the world’s deep establishment, exposing what actually goes on behind the scenes through the corridors of real power. He offers a fascinatingly candid I-was-there account of his meetings with Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, and European leaders. He exposes the hypocrisies, power plays, and frustrated … Continued
This powerful and landmark documentary “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking The Domination Code” is a result of the collaborative efforts by Dakota filmmaker and Director Sheldon Wolfchild and Co-Producer (Shawnee, Lenape). The film, based on Newcomb’s thirty years of research, and his book Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. copyright … Continued
On today’s show we look at the new film, Healing Justice produced by World Trust in collaboration with Shakti Butler, Ph.D. Healing Justice, explores the causes and consequences of the current American justice system and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current … Continued
Today on Hard Knock we discuss Facebook’s new policy that bans individuals without proper identification. Facebook, in its new policy (reported last week) which is being publicly touted as a measure to stop Russian meddling in U.S. elections via social media, requires that all U.S. residents who purchase ads have a social security # and valid state … Continued
In today’s episode, host Davey D plays excerpts from Malcolm X’s speech on the Congo and his talk with James Baldwin regarding Muslims vs. Sit-ins. The Congo talk outlines Malcolm X’s belief on the Congo and US involvement there and the role that Blacks and Whites in the United States play in it all. The speech … Continued
