Hard Knock Radio – March 8, 2005
Celebrating International Womens Day with hip hop author and scholar Trisha Rose and highlights from some of the womens performances at this years Youth Speaks Poetry Slam.

4:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS
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.
Celebrating International Womens Day with hip hop author and scholar Trisha Rose and highlights from some of the womens performances at this years Youth Speaks Poetry Slam.
A discussion about Beefing.
Mumia Abu Jamal on Social Security; Davey D explores the history of Mix Tapes; and Fifth Element, an artists’ collective dedicated to finding women’s voices in hip-hop.
Materializing Icons; and Davey D speaks with local award-winning filmmaker Joslyn Rose about the DVD release of her film Sounds of Spirit., which focuses on the creative and spiritual aspects of hiphop culture.
The legendary DJ Logic.
Dr. Cornel West pays tribute to Oscar winner Jamie Foxx; A report back from a protest against New Yorks Hot 97; Anita Johnson reports from the Oakland Unified School District administrative building where there is a planned action today.
Kiilu Nyasha interviews Nina Simone.
Critical Resistance Radio.; Rudy Corpus of United Players; Jennfier Hazard of the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center; The innovative bus program at San Quentin prison.
Davey D speaks with industry insider Lisa Fager of IndustryEars.com about ongoing campaigns to hold urban radio executives accountable to the hip hop community for the music that they play; and Pooja Makhijani, author of Under Her Skin : How Girls Experience Race in America.
Excerpts from Cornel Wests recent speech in Oakland.