Hard Knock Radio – August 8, 2022
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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Hard Knock Radio
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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.
We speak with Fred Kaplan and Carolyn Wysinger about the American women’s basketball star Brittney Griner being sentenced to nine years in Russian prison. Guests: Fred Kaplan is Slate’s national security columnist and the author, most recently, of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. He was the Boston Globe’s Moscow Bureau Chief … Continued
Jazz Vocalist Faye Carol and Poor News Network
Davey D speak with jazz legend Faye Carol about the art of music. And later Poor News Network explores America’s attack on the poor.
We talk with several artists and organizers about the upcoming Black Future’s Ball put on by East Oakland Youth Development Center. We talk about stimulating the Black mind and imagination and using our collective wisdom for liberation. Our guests include Selena Wilson, who heads up EOYODC, Refa 1, long-time aerosol artist of Dark Star Universe, … Continued
A Tribute to Sci-Fi Pioneer Nichelle Nichols
We talk with scholar Kwadro Deterville about the life and legacy of Nichelle Nichols, who was best known for her role as lieutenant Uhura on the sci-fi show Star Trek.
Hard Knock Radio – August 1, 2022
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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
We present the film, The Man Card. For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have accused the left of playing “the race card” and “the woman card” and engaging in identity politics. This eye-opening documentary turns the tables and takes dead aim at the right’s own longstanding use of white male identity politics in American presidential … Continued
Today we present the documentary film, Theaters of War. If you’ve seen Top Gun or Transformers, you may have wondered: Does all of that military machinery on screen come with strings attached? Does the military actually get a crack at the script? Theaters of War digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents to bring … Continued
Today we present the documentary film, Requiem for the American Dream. In Requiem for the American Dream Noam Chomsky, widely recognized as the most influential intellectual alive, makes plain the principles perpetuating the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.
Summer Fund Drive Special – Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation
We present the documentary film, Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation. Parents need to know that Healing from Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation is a documentary about the rise of the alt-right movement and Life After Hate, a group that tries to help members of White supremacy groups exit … Continued