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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.
Right-wing media continues to have a great negative affect upon our country. To understand how it originally started, we play excerpts from the new documentary, “The Brainwashing of My Dad.” An in-depth look at the ins and outs of “conservative” media and the various ways they influence/control national discourse. Please support KPFA during our Summer 2016 … Continued
Today we play excerpts from the audiobook of Howard Zinn’s, “A People’s History of the United States.” Please support KPFA, during this Summer Pledge Drive by donating on our website or calling 1800-HEY-KPFA to make a financial contribution.
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 the escalating climate justice and gender freedom demands and the movement against mass incarceration, state sanction terrorism to the restructuring of party politics, left critique … Continued
Today on HKR we offer critique from author , writer, journalist, and educator. Mark Danner. Danner has written for three decades on foreign affairs and international conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, Balkans, Iraq and the greater Middle East, among many other stories, and has written extensively about the development of American foreign policy … 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
Today we offer a collection of historical speeches by Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, Robert F. Kennedy, Bernie Sanders and many others.
We spoke with Youth Radio’s Myles Bess about Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and young people participation in the 2016 Presidential Election. Also political consultant Biko Baker provided us with a breakdown of the political landscape.
We speak with Carl Dix who gives a recap of what went down in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention in Ohio and what to expect at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Later we speak with Aimee Allison about women in the Democratic National Convention and the power plays at work.
The tragic drama “Fences,” won August Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize in 1987. It’s the story of a fallen patriach, former negro league baseball great turned garbage man. However, under the direction of Raelle Myrick-Hodges, the Wilson classic has been revised to provide audiences with a memorably powerful image of a matriarch, played by Oakland-based … Continued
Today on Hard Knock: Davey D speaks with Hip Hop activist John Rivera, Van Jones and B Real of Cypress Hill fame about the 2016 Presidential Election and movement building.
