We speak with two different community leaders about May Day and its importance for workers and immigrant communities.
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.
We speak with celebrated musician Meklit about her new recording and upcoming show; we observe the 25 year mark of the beginning of 1992’s Los Angeles uprising and revisit part one of Davey D speaking with Twilight Bey about the Rodney King beating by the LA Police.
we speak with Melissa Ryan and Kev Choice about the trafficking of children. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor.
As tensions continue to escalate between the US and North Korea. President Trump has called every single member of the Senate to gather for a a top-level briefing at the White House on North Korea. Unsure of the potential outcome of this meeting, many ppl are on edge abt the possibility of the United States … Continued
We speak with former political prisoner and Black Panther Erica Huggins about the upcoming Matatu Festival, Movement Building, and Black Liberation.
Bill O’Reilly and Net Neutrality
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We speak with Color of Change co-founder James Rucker about Media, Bill O’Reilly and Net Neutrality.
On Hard Knock Radio: We speak with Elyce Klein about Climate Stabilization and protecting the Earth. Elyce Klein is the Outreach Coordinator for the Alameda County Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby. Later on Making Contact’s RJ Lozada provides perspective on Response to Terror in Paris and the Experimental Movement of Mixite.
We speak with Dr. Angelo Williams, a professor of Sociology at Sacramento City and Sierra Colleges about the Normalization of White Nationalism and the Risk Associated with It. The escalating threat of white nationalist movement is upon us. Be it a singular racist remark about immigrants on social media, a pro-Trump rally in Berkeley Ca … Continued
We speak with Hodari B. Davis and Candice Antique Davis about their upcoming education series. We speak with youth from the Richmond Ryse program about the Richmond
We speak with Human Rights advocate Kevin Alexander Gray about the history of North Korea and American expansion. We speak with Leon Dnas about the Creative Arts Coalition and the fight to end gentrification and preserve the Arts in Oakland.