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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.
Up next, we’ll discuss the general elections in Haiti, held on October 25th of this year. Haitians were choosing from more than 50 candidates to succeed President Michel Martelly. They were also electing members of the Congress, which was dissolved in January amid politically motivated mass murders in Haiti. Preliminary results could be issued in … Continued
Author and hiphop activist Sister Souljah speaks at Oakland’s McClymonds High school about the youth being in a state of emergency.
We speak with independent journalist & filmmaker David Sheen about the heightened racist treatment of African asylum-seekers in Israel. Later we speak with filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi about immigration and the new film, Ellis Island.
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We speak with organizer Jovanka Beckles about the murder of Sandra Bland and an upcoming march to commemorate her life as well as the countless other victims of police terrorism. Later on we speak with filmmaker Stanley Nelson about his documentary film, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.
Hard Knock Radio correspondent Thandisizwe Chimurenga discusses Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill, Poor News Network explores economic violence against poor communities and Soul Mechanix’s Graal Swartz stops by to discuss the changing music business. Thandisizwe Chimurenga | @idabweewells | facebook.com/LoveOfTheNation | Soul Mechanix https://www.facebook.com/Soul-Mechanix-103209893137748/
HKR’s Davey D speaks with attorney Walter Riley and other legal practitioners about the radical lawyering, the legal battles of the Black Friday 14 and the upcoming National Lawyers Guild conference that will bring together practitioners, law students, and community activists from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to law and social change.
Justa Cause Oakland’s Robbie Clark, Favianna Rodriguez, Chaney Turner and others discuss the attack on Black expression and Black life in the city of Oakland and how to protect it.
Davey D speaks with Anyka Barber, director of the Betti Ono Gallery in Oakland and Donald Lacy of the Lovelife Foundation RALLY at CITY KICKOFF EVENT & DESIGN WORKSHOP Monday October 19th 6pm Rally Rotunda Building, 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Featuring Favianna Rodriguez, Young Gifted & Black, Oakland Creative Voices Choir and more! … Continued
We speak with Essie Justice Group founder Gina Clayton about #StandWithHer, an awareness campaign designed to educate people of the the injustice of mass incarceration and its impact on women. 1 out of every for women has a loved one or family member in prison. And later music legend Sheila E talks about her new … Continued
We speak with Lawrence Grandpre of Leaders of A Beautiful Struggle about the death of Darrell Murray while in prison. Later HKR correspondent, Thandisizwe Chimurenga brings us a commentary titled, White Supremacy is a Helluva Drug.
