Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman tells it like it is in the Age of Trump: We’ll feature excerpts from Amy’s speech, “Democracy Now: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America”
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.
with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida. Discusses his latest book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course … Continued
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, First Feature Documentary on the Author/Activist.
Today on Hard Knock: Vijay Prashad, historian, journalist, and Marxist intellectual, discusses Trump’s first 100 days. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator and a Marxist intellectual. He is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. In 2013–2014, he was the Edward Said … Continued
we bring you a keynote address featuring Rosa Clemente speaking at Mills College, Center For Socially Responsible Business Conference, 2017. The speech is titled, “We Do Not Consent: Organizing Against Trumpism.” Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, political commentator, Hip Hop activist, and in 2008, she became the 1st Afro-Latina US Vice Presidential Candidate. … 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
Acclaimed anti-racism author and educator Tim Wise spoke at a SURJ-sponsored benefit to raise funds for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and All of Us or None’s statewide mobilization to Sacramento on May 8th – “Quest for Democracy Advocacy Day.” Wise spoke on” The Great White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer and the Politics of Trumpism“, … Continued
Miko Marks and Alia Sharrief
We speak with music artists Miko Marks and Alia Sharrief.
Mysterious Deaths of Black Actvists in Ferguson and Cinco de Mayo
We speak about recents deaths in Ferguson of prominent activist. And we discuss about youth in Oakland reclaiming Cinco de Mayo
Fist Up Film Festival and The Village Matters
we speak with Eli and Khalil Jacobs- Fantauzzi about the Fist Up Film Festival. and we speak with Deborah Vaughn, the artistic director for Dimensions Dance Theater’s about The Village Matters, dance performance event.