ThingsTaken Mix
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Our annual ThingsTaken Mix and Poor News Network with a look at economic violence against communities of color and low-income individuals.
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.
An Interview with artivist Alia Sharrief about Muslim Women in HipHop
We speak with Black Lives Matter organizer Mica Grimm on the ground about what took place last night when 5 Black Lives Matter protesters were shot by white supremacist. We cover the press conference and do two interviews with Rachel Ledderman of National lawyers guild and journalist rasheed Shabbazz about lawsuit launched against Berkeley police.
We speak with Latonya Gold, the cousin of Tamir Rice about the one year anniversary of his tragic death at the hands of police in Cleveland. Later we speak Native American elder Corrida Gould about spirituality and the boycott on Black Friday.
We speak with Martin Perna of the world–renowned Afrobeat band Antibalas. Martin Perna is an educator, and multidisciplinary artist living in Houston, Texas.
We look at the Paris Attacks with MXGM member Kali Akuno and The History of the Nation with Dani McClain.
Police in East Oakland kill again, reports from Paris and Turkey
Oakland police shoot and kill another man. This time its a man with a airsoft pellet gun. We find out the latest details with Frank Sosa of the Anti-Police Terror Project. Later on in the show we speak with French journalist Epee Dingon about whats the mood is in Paris and where are things headed.. … Continued
We speak with Berkeley High School Black Student Union (BSU) members/students about the November 5 protest against racist threats left on a school library’s computer in support of the Ku Klux Klan and threatening a “public lynching” next month. We spoke with Alicia Huggar, BSU president, Nevia Sacris and Ecrra Davis.
We speak with Alexa Garcia-Ditta from the Texas Observer about the women lead hunger strike at T. Don Hutto’s Texas Detention Center. Later on Poor News Network explores economic injustice.
Goapele, Humanity and Being Transgendered
We speak with R&B artist Goapele, HKR correspondent Thandi Chimurenga explores Humanity and Youth Radio’s Cole Carman discusses being transgendered