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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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
The Movement for Black Lives held in Convention in Cleveland Ohio. We speak with Rosa Clemente and later listen to the Movement for Black Lives opening plenary. http://movementforblacklives.org/category/news/
On today’s program Minister Muhammad talks about the upcoming Justice Or Else!” Conference set to take place on the 20th anniversary gathering of the Million Man March. The conference has been organized by the NOI to present grievances that the U.S. government should address.
On today’s program we speak with Natasha Chart, the Director of Campaigns and Fundraising, RH Reality Check. She recently penned a commentary titled “It’s Not Black People Who Need to Change” for the online publication that examined the role of White people addressing injustices. Below is the link to her commentary: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/06/30/black-people-need-change/
Rebel Diaz speaks about recent trip to Venezuela.
