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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.
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
We speak with music artists Miko Marks and Alia Sharrief.
We speak about recents deaths in Ferguson of prominent activist. And we discuss about youth in Oakland reclaiming Cinco de Mayo
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.
We talk with the group Third Root about Black and Brown Unity.
we speak with organizer Twilight Bey about the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles Rebellions.
We speak with two different community leaders about May Day and its importance for workers and immigrant communities.
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.
