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.

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.
Hunger Strikers fasting in Oakland to bring attention to inequities in education; Carlos Mena on his new album Hip Hop Meditations.
Hip Hop Theater Festival; New York-based artist and activist Cristal Channelle Truscotts 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.
Melvyn & Mario Van Peebles on their new movie Baadasssss
Michael Eric Dyson, author of the new book Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye.
A Tribute to Marvin Gaye.
Michael Franti joins Hard Knock today.
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.
Anita talks with folks dealing with women that find themselves incarcerated and pregnent; Oakland Leaf: An orginization of artists and eductators combatting school closures; A lesson on Cinco de Mayo.
Media analyst, journalist, activist, and host of the nw show "It’s Your Call" on KALW, Farai Chideya; Emory Douglas joins Hard Knock to talk about his art exhibit "A Retrospective on the Black Panther Party & the Art of Emory Douglas," at Sargent Johnson Gallery, 762 Fulton St., SF. More info at www.aaacc.org
Update on Haiti, with Marguerite Laurent of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network; Freedom fighter, singer, songwriter, activist Thomas Mapfumo, along with the Black Panther Fugitives and David Hilliard, former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party.