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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 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
Today we present to you Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. a theological scholar and a pastor’s pastor. A student of Black Sacred Music, ethnomusicology and African Diasporan studies, Dr. Wright is trained as an historian of religions. Wright made headlines in 2008 after his sermons were examined and Barack Obama — then campaigning for … Continued
Hard Knock Radio’s Davey D covers the hunger strike in San Francisco over the battle to fire Police Chief Suhr and SF State students battle to Save the College of Ethnic Studies.
We speak with film maker Abby Ginzberg and former students from SF State and Cornel about the student strikes for ethnic studies …
Coming up, on HARD KNOCK, President Obama versus The Black Lives Matter Movement, Youth Radio brings us a report on Young Adults seeking refuge in a challenging housing market, and the Black Agenda Report with a look at why President Obama silenced Bin Laden and we’ll discuss Black Queer Women Voices, in connection with “The … Continued
We look at the ongoing hunger strike in San Francisco Ca to protest police terrorism and later we speak with Kin Folkz about “The Same Difference,” the documentary that examines tensions in the lesbian community over race and gender expression.
