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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.
Friday is the 45th anniversary of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising. Twenty-nine prisoners and ten hostages were killed when police took back control of the facility after inmates resisted state repression, demanding better conditions. To mark the occasion in 2016, we’ll broadcast the CD Prisons on Fire: George Jackson, Attica & Black Liberation produced by … Continued
Today’s left generates an increasingly bold and resonant criticism of contemporary capitalism and the severely compromised everyday life that it produces. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to escalating climate justice and gender freedom demands and the movement against mass incarceration, state sanction terrorism to the restructuring of party politics, left critique is … Continued
On today’s show we once again have the opportunity to bring to you the work of author Ta-Nehisi (pronounced Tan-Na-Ha-See ) Coates. He is an Atlantic National Correspondent, and has written many influential articles, that have covered “The Obama Era” “ Mass Incarceration” and “The Case for Reparations,” which reignited the long-dormant conversation of how … Continued
A federal court has denied innocent political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal the life-saving medicine that could cure his Hepatitis-C. Based on a technicality–that Mumia didn’t file the suit against a Pennsylvania state agency that didn’t exist at the original time of filing over one year ago. Federal Judge Robert Mariani has denied … Continued
We speak with Hip Hop artist Ras Ceylon and attorney Karima Al-Amin, the wife of Jamil Al-Amin formerly known as H Rap Brown about the upcoming campaign to free H Rap Brown.
We speak with local rapper, activist, and educator Chhoti Maa about the Standing Rock Sioux and resistance in North Dakota, in an effort to stop construction of fossil-fuel project. And later we talk with My Click Urban about African Americans and high-tech.
We speak with Pastor Michael McBride about the intersection between religion/politics, and the Movement for Black Lives Platform. ABOUT PASTOR MCBRIDE: Pastor Michael McBride (known as “Pastor Mike”) is a native of San Francisco and has been active in ministry for over 20 years. Throughout the years, Pastor McBride’s commitment to holistic ministry can be seen … Continued
We speak with Jenee Darden and Koletchi Umbuzone about mental health and trauma in communities of color, specifically the long-term affects of African Americans. Image by Simply KJS #youngblackhistorian and Black Awareness Foundation, Copyright 2016. www.blackawarenessfoundation.com
We explore the intersections between Gentrification and Probate Laws. We speak with organizers battling the court system to save their family home from being sold to the highest bidder.
Na’im Akbar is a clinical psychologist well known for his Afro-centric approach to psychology. On today’s program, Dr. Akbar offers insight and analysis of the social concerns affecting descendants of Africans living in the United States. Afrocentric Scholar, Dr. Akbar offers an Afrocentric approach to understanding the social concerns affecting African-Americans. His name is Dr. … Continued
