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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.
This past Sunday marked exactly 365 days since Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown was shot, killed, and left on the road, in open view for four hours by local police. Up next on Hard Knock, Davey D reports from the city of Ferguson, Mo., where he spoke with organizers and community members in attendance … Continued
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Davey D speak with American civil rights leader and the executive director of Color of Change, Rashad Robinson and Will Randolph a member of The Black Resurgents. Below watch a video of Will Randolph of the Black Resurgents
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We speak with Jamala Rogers the author of the new book Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion. Also Poor News Network brings us insight to the plight of the economically challenged in America. http://fergusonamerica.com/ Jamala currently resides in St. Louis, MO where she has devoted all of her adult life to creating a child-centered, family-oriented … Continued
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On today’s program we speak with Minister Christopher Muhammad about government surveillance in the African American community. We also discuss an upcoming event titled, “The Counter Intelligence Program: Past, Present and Future. What The Community Needs to Know.” This talk is scheduled for this afternoon at 7pm at 5048 3rd & Revere in San Francisco, … Continued
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We sat down with longtime human rights lawyer Nicole Lee about the Black Movement-Law Project, which is an organization of Black Lawyers who are on the ground developing infrastructure and strategies for dealing with police terrorism. Lee who is the former President of Trans Africa talked to us about how some of the hot spots … Continued
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We check out a panel discussion from the Lawyers for Black Lives convention in New York where panelist talk about police unions and the financial incentive around policing.
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On today’s program we continue with our coverage from the Movement for Black Lives Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio. On July24th -July 26th over two thousand people came together over the course of three days to plan, strategize, and build relationships across this movement. A movement that has galvanized international attention to the horrors of … Continued
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We spoke with filmmaker and documentarian April Martin and print artist Oree Originol about police terrorism, Black Lives Matter Movement and the intersection between Arts, Culture, Activism and Community. April Martin co-directed Cincinnati Goddamn. The film captures the personal trauma and civic unrest that followed the deaths of 15 African American men at the hands of … Continued
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Today on HKR, discuss the death of Jonathan Sanders, a 39-year-old black horseman, killed by strangulation due to Kevin Herrington, a white police officer, in Stonewall Mississippi placing a chokehold on the victim. We speak with attorneys Mr. CJ Lawrence and Mr. Chokwe Lumumba. Later Davey speaks with Ph.D Nicholas Maurice Young about the revolutionary … Continued
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On today’s program we continue with our coverage from the Movement for Black Lives Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio. On July24th -July 26th over two thousand people came together over the course of three days to plan, strategize, and build relationships across this movement. A movement that has galvanized international attention to the horrors of … Continued
