Hard Knock Radio – May 31, 2004
Celebrating the life and legacy of jazz legend Elvin Jones.

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 the life and legacy of jazz legend Elvin Jones.
Day 19 of Fast for Education; Hip Hop Rock group Game; Part 2 of converstion with L.A. Banks, author of the Vampiter Huntress triology.
Mumia Abu Jamal on America’s War on Terrorism; L.A. Banks, author of the Vampiter Huntress triology.
An anti free speech bill, HR 3077; An interview with the lawyer of a 19 year old High School Student, arrested for creating hip hop music at school; Hip Hop Soul artist Van Hunt stops by to talk about his new music – www.vanhunt.com.
Carnaval; Loco Bloco’s 10th Anniversary – www.locobloco.org; The ongoing surveillance of hip hop.
Legendary Boogaloo group The Black Resurgence; Hip Hop artist Magesterio, performing tonight at La Peña in the The 2nd Annual International Hip Hop Exchange: "Sin Fronteras."
Day 11 of the Fast for Education; Cartoonist, author, rapper, Keith Knight, talks about his new album with the Marginal Prophets, and his new comic anthology Red, White, Black, and Blue.
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.
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
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.