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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.
Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of “neo- liberalism,” capitalism is by far the world’s dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work? CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part … Continued
on today’s show we hear speeches from Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Geronimo (Janome Ji Jaga) Pratt a decorated military veteran and a high-ranking member of the Black Panther Party in the United States; and Fannie Lou Hamer an American voting rights activist, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and … Continued
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the the time of Baldwin’s death in … Continued
The Souls of Black Girls is an award-winning provocative news documentary that raises the question of whether or not women of color may be suffering from a self-image disorder as a result of trying to attain the standards of beauty that are celebrated in media images. The candid piece features interviews with young women discussing … Continued
Dan Kovalik has worked as a labor attorney for US Steel Workers and as a Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburg School of Law. He has written extensively about Latin America, especially Columbia; has served as an international observer at the recent Constituent Assembly Election in Venezuela and has published a new and … Continued
In celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dick Gregory we present to you a collection of interviews and speeches that feature his genius. Provided by the Pacifica Radio Archives we’ll hear Gregory analysis of US empire, Obama’s presidency and our stolen democracy.
We speak with activists about Hurricane Irma and Cuba. We speak with Steve Ronduras from the Center for Media Justice about the Net Neutrality Battle.
Davey D speaks with Mohammad Sheik of Critical Resistance about the demonstration against Urban Shield
Davey D talks with Hakim Green about preparing for the hurricane heading towards Florida; Davey speaks with Dave Zirin about the police terrorism experienced by NFL star Michael Bennett / Poor News Network
Today’s show is an encore broadcast of Anita Johnson’s conversation with Dr. Angelo Williams about the normalization of white nationalism and the risks associated with it.
