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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.
On today’s show we feature scholar Lawrence C. Ross, the author of Blackballed. Blackballed is an explosive, controversial, timely book that exposes one of America’s hidden secrets: our colleges have become hostile to African American students. The white fraternity and sorority system is described, with its deep traditions of racist parties, songs, and assaults on … Continued
As part of our continued acknowledgement of African Heritage during the month of February, we present to you, a portrait of excellence, Paul Robeson. Robeson was the epitome of the 20th-century Renaissance man. He was an exceptional athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and social activist. He starred in both stage and film versions of … Continued
Today Hard Knock presents the film THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION. The Black Panthers is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley … Continued
Johanna Fernandez and Angela Davis discuss Mumia Abu-Jamal’s latest book, Writing on The Wall. Together they explore his Black radical history and why Mumia’s voice is a threat to the state. Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist, former Black Panther and one of the world’s most known political prisoners.
Today we bring you the six-part documentary series CAPITALISM, looks at both the history of ideas and the social forces that have shaped the capitalist world.
Today author Kevin Powell speaks to a KPFA audience about his latest book, most recent talk The Education of Kevin Powell. Kevin Powell is the author or editor of eleven previous books. He has written for The Huffington Post, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and others. He is president and co-founder of BK Nation, … Continued
We present Malcolm X’s 1964 speech, The Ballot or The Bullet.
Davey D. Interviews Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, plus excerpts of the documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution.
Today we present to you Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. a theological scholar and a pastor’s pastor. Last month, Rev. Dr. Wright spoke at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland Ca The audio comes to us courtesy of Rev Cheryl Ward of Liberation Ministries. And in this talk Rev. Wright, explores America’s hypocrisy….the … Continued
We speak with Bambu about the upcoming Beyond Dreams series on Immigration. Later on we speak with Tarika Lewis, first female Black panther about the history of Oakland and the upcoming PBS special Panther Vanguard of the Revolution
