Hard Knock Radio

Into The Depths with Tara Roberts and Jason Moran

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We speak with Tara Roberts, National Geographic explorer and host of the podcast “Into The Depths” a new six-part podcast series, that explores the complex history of the global slave trade and the stories of the estimated 12.5-million Africans forced to make the Middle Passage. Later we speak with award-winning composer and musician Jason Moran.


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Pass Over and Queens Underground International Film Festival

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We speak with director Kevin Free about the West Coast premiere of the Broadway version of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s acclaimed drama, Pass Over. Hailed as “bold, urgent, and impassioned” (Time Out New York), Pass Over tells the story of Moses and Kitch, two young Black men who pass the time talking smack and hoping that maybe today will be … Continued


We speak with Dr. Michael Benitez Jr. the vice president for Diversity and Inclusion at Metropolitan State University of Denver about the laws being passed to ban ethnic studies and critical race theory practices. https://www.speakoutnow.org/speaker/michael-benitez-jr https://www.depts.ttu.edu/diversity/documents/MB_Biography17.pdf