Hard Knock Radio – February 9, 2005
A lesson in Black History; Playwright, novelist, artist, Jessica Hagedorn talks about her new play Stairway to Heaven; Sean San José of Campo Santo.

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.
A lesson in Black History; Playwright, novelist, artist, Jessica Hagedorn talks about her new play Stairway to Heaven; Sean San José of Campo Santo.
Featuring Aya DeLeon, Boots Riley, and Cornel West speaking last weekend at Laney College in Oakland.
Mumia Abu Jamal pays tribute to Ossie Davis; Tony Jaa talks about his new film Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior; Iron Sheik: Palestinian hip hop.
Lori Robinson, author of I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse; Weyland interviews hip hop artists The Attic.
Davey D speaks with Dr. Cornel West.
Part 2 of our interview with Mopreme Shakur; Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano documentary film about Cuban hip hop.
The case of Mutulu Shakur, who is up for parole this week, Davey D speaks with Mopreme Shakur, the son of Mutulu Shakur and brother of Tupac Shakur.
Hard Knock speaks with Father Gerard Jean-Juste about his imprisonment, the continuing chaos in Haiti, the role of the U.S. and the international community and much more. Jean-Juste was released Nov. 29 after being imprisoned for seven weeks by the interim Haitian government.
Critical Resistance Radio; The controversy at Hot 97 over the Tsunami song.
Sounds from a protest outside Oakland Mayor Jerry Browns loft against adult curfews in Oakland; Toby Thompkins, author of The Real Lives of Strong Black Women : Transcending Myths, Reclaiming Joy; The 2005 Bay Area African American Health Summit.