Hard Knock Radio – May 19, 2004
Mumia Abu Jamal on "The Torture We Ignore"; Update on the Fast for Eductaion; Hip Hop artist and poet Azeem talks about his latest album Mayhem Mystics.
Hard Knock Radio
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.
Hard Knock Radio – May 18, 2004
Prisoner Abuse in Iraq, and At Home Mumia Abu Jamal on the Prison Abuse at Abu Ghraib; Guests Ty Fairman, former expert security consultant, former FBI operative in the Middle East, and former Prison Guard; Nicholas Yarris, exonerated Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner at SCI-Greene who was released January 16, 2004, says that he had numerous … Continued
Hard Knock Radio – May 17, 2004
Mumia Abu Jamal delivers a commencement address to U.C. Berkeley’s African American Studies Graduates; Tony Coleman, of Books Not Bars, on abuses at the California Youth Authority; Oakland’s own Dwayne Wiggins on an upcoming benefit concert with Medusa.
Hard Knock Radio – May 14, 2004
Hunger Strikers fasting in Oakland to bring attention to inequities in education; Carlos Mena on his new album Hip Hop Meditations.
Hard Knock Radio – May 13, 2004
Hip Hop Theater Festival; New York-based artist and activist Cristal Channelle Truscott’s Progress Theatre brings the West Coast premiere of PEACHES; And the Bay Area’s own Kofy Brown on her new CD and record release party.
Hard Knock Radio – May 12, 2004
Melvyn & Mario Van Peebles on their new movie Baadasssss
Hard Knock Radio – May 11, 2004
Michael Eric Dyson, author of the new book Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye.
Hard Knock Radio – May 10, 2004
A Tribute to Marvin Gaye.
Hard Knock Radio – May 7, 2004
Michael Franti joins Hard Knock today.
Hard Knock Radio – May 6, 2004
Mumia Abu Jamal on the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq; Guest from the Sacred Womb Mothers Circle on the importance of motherhood; Oakland Leaf: An orginization of artists and eductators combatting school closures.