Hard Knock Radio – May 27, 2004
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.

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.
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.
Hunger Strikers fasting in Oakland to bring attention to inequities in education; Carlos Mena on his new album Hip Hop Meditations.