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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.
Today we bring you the six-part documentary series CAPITALISM, looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world. CAPITALISM is an impressive series that makes economics accessible through an interdisciplinary approach that explores the work of great thinkers, while embedding economics in specific social, political, and historical … Continued
We speak with Erica Blount about the Baltimore cop acquitted in Freddie Gray death. A Maryland judge was expected to announce the verdict Monday in the case of Baltimore police. Later we hear from Alicia Garza and mothers who lost their children to police terrorism.
Today we present the film Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick.
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This day, May 19th, marks the birthday of one of America’s most important voices, Malcolm X or Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz as he was known in the years prior to his death. 51 years after the assassination of Malcolm X, “his voice, perspective still speaks truth to power. In many ways his analysis of America’s racial … Continued
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Jeremy Scahill, one of the three founding editors of The Intercept, is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, author of the internationally bestselling books Dirty Wars and Blackwater, and twice a recipient of the George Pol Award. He will also discuss The Intercept, the investigative web magazine founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill, … Continued
Today we present the film, The Brainwashing of My Dad. Ffilmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, Right-Wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under Nixon for a media takeover by … Continued
Hard Knock Radio host Davey D speaks with Professor Michael Eric Dyson about Obama’s leadership, The Black Vote, and Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. This conversation was part of Real Talk with Michael Eric Dyson in Oakland with Davey D of KPFA, recorded March 5, 2016. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-talk-with-michael-eric-dyson-in-oakland-with-davey-d-of-kpfa-tickets-21737872562
Hard Knock Radio’s Davey D talks with film-maker Michael Moore about Where to Invade Next.
SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. SHE’S BEAUTIFUL takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett … Continued
“Boom Bust Boom”is at its best when illustrating some of history’s worst economic meltdowns. It has informative and fun depictions of the 1637 tulip mania in the Netherlands, the crash of the South Sea Company in early 18th-century Britain, and the 19th-century speculation in (and fantastic crash of) British railroad stock. It also describes how the heights of … Continued
