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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 this episode of Hard Knock Radio we present a talk featuring Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, worked for nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, National Public Radio and other news organizations in Latin America, the Middle East and the Balkans. He was … Continued
On today’s episode of Hard Knock Radio, we present the film Israelism. Directed by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, ISRAELISM is produced by Peabody-winner & 6-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Loudmouth, Boycott) along with activist and filmmaker Nadia Saah (Mo, Omar, 5 Broken Cameras), executive produced by … Continued
On today’s episode of Hard Knock Radio, we present to you the film, Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948. A series on the Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures. “The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….” So begins this four-part series on … Continued
On today’s episode of Hard Knock Radio, we speak with author Kai Naima Williams about her new book, The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements. Author Kai Naima Williams is the great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama. Her debut book intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that … Continued
In a powerful episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with Dorsey Nunn, the co-founder of “All of Us or None,” to discuss his memoir “What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection.” The conversation was an in-depth exploration of Nunn’s life, his activism, and the systemic issues … Continued
Today we speak with author Paul Alexander about his latest book Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her, and new material unearthed in … Continued
Davey D speaks with author Adam Shatz about his new book, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. In this searching biography, Adam Shatz tells the story of Fanons stunning journey, which has all the twists of a Cold War-era thriller. Fanon left his modest home in Martinique to fight in the French … Continued
We speak with author and culture critic Odie Henderson about his latest book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema. Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited history of a genre and the movies that he grew up watching, which he loves without irony (but with plenty of self-awareness and humor). … Continued
Davey D speaks with DJ Lynnée Denise about the book, Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters. Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent’s grave—Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton’s life events epitomize the blues. Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters “samples” elements of Thornton’s art—and, occasionally, the author’s … Continued
Davey D presents the book, The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members―mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists―The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, … Continued
