Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio

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.

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National Bird

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This is a disturbing documentary which, through the testimonies of three courageous whistleblowers, sheds some daylight on the USA’s secret military drone program. Directed by Sonia Kennebeck and executive-produced by Wim Wenders, National Bird weaves together the stories of the air force veterans Lisa, Daniel and Heather, all of whom have worked on the drones … Continued

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James Baldwin: Voices That Changed The World

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A comprehensive collection of  voices in celebration of Black History, Women Herstory and World History – with studies of Black Power, the Black Panthers, Blacks in Hollywood, Black Poets, and Black Authors; you’ll hear from Huey Newton, Rosa Parks, Paul Robeson, Nelson Mandela, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and many more. We begin with a speech … Continued

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National Bird

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This is a disturbing documentary which, through the testimonies of three courageous whistleblowers, sheds some daylight on the USA’s secret military drone program. Directed by Sonia Kenneback and executive-produced by Wim Wenders, National Bird weaves together the stories of the air force veterans Lisa, Daniel and Heather, all of whom have worked on the drones … Continued

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Hard Knock’s History and Activist Pack

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1. Lineage: Conversation with Thinkers & Activists historian, journalist, and educator Dr. Jelani Cobb (Columbia University) who will be interviewed by his friend and comrade Alicia Garza, Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Founder of #BlackLivesMatter. http://oakland.impacthub.net/event/lineage-conversations-w-thinkers-activists-jelani-cobb-alicia-garza/ 2. The Price of the Ticket: James Baldwin Revisited In the days leading … Continued

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In Conversation with Bernardine Rae Dohrn, Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver

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with Bernadine Dohrn, former Professor of Law at Northwestern University Involved with the Weather Underground Organization, an American militant, radical left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969. The pair are life partners. In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a … Continued

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The Anti-Inauguration with Anand Gopal and Jeremy Scahill

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This hour, we’ll present – “The Anti-Inauguration,” an event put on by Jacobin Magazine,— along with Haymarket Books and Verso. Held in Washington, D.C’s Lincoln Theatre on inauguration, Friday, January, 20th 2017…initiated discourse that centered on conversation about what resistance should look like in the age of Trump and what kind of positive program we … Continued

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James Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro

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On today’s show we pull from the PRA vault to listen to “Voices That Changed The World”, the largest collection of historic audio ever compiled by Pacifica Radio. Today we feature the brilliance of James Baldwin, an essayist, playwright and novelist regarded as a highly insightful, iconic writer with works like The Fire Next Time … Continued

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The Anti-Inauguration

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This hour, we’ll present – “The Anti-Inauguration,” an event put on by Jacobin Magazine,— along with Haymarket Books and Verso. Held in Washington, D.C’s Lincoln Theatre on inauguration, Friday, January, 20th 2017…initiated discourse that centered on conversation about what resistance should look like in the age of Trump and what kind of positive program we … Continued