Hard Knock Radio

Artist As First Responders and Poor News Network

We speak with Ashara Ekundayo about “Artist As First Responder” in reaction to 9/11 and her campaign to bring more awareness to Black August with “9 Days of Radical Practice.”  Later we hear from Poor News Network about America’s assault on economically disenfranchised communities.   Guest: Ashara Ekundayo is a cultural strategist, independent curator, serial … Continued


A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Tonight on Apex Express we present Episode 2 of the DragonFruit Podcast, an intergenerational project that explores queer Asian and Pacific … Continued


Today on the Show: We’’ll speak with Nation Writer, Rafia Zakaria, about her article, “White Feminists Wanted to Invade but Afghan Women Never Asked for US Air Strikes:” Also The International Indian Treaty Council moves its headquarters to San Francisco. Well speak to its executive director, Andrea Carmen about the multiple struggles facing the Indigenous … Continued


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On today’s show: 0:08 – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently passed a measure to repeal both Authorizations for Use of Military Force Against Iraq (1991 and 2002). Phyllis Bennis (@PhyllisBennis) Middle East analyst and Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies joins us to discuss. 0:34 – We’re seeing … Continued


Hard Knock Radio

East Oakland Rising and Jail House Lawyer

We talk to filmmaker Cheo Tyehimba Taylor about his new film East Oakland Rising. This documentary highlights the stories of everyday people coming together to build relationships and trust, knowledge and understanding, and collective determination to fight environmental racism, unfair housing policies, and gentrification in East Oakland, CA, one of the last predominantly-African American communities … Continued


Against Voter Suppression

Across the United States, backed by the Supreme Court, some states are attempting to pass a barrage of voter suppression laws, aimed at attacking and dismantling the Voting Rights Act and in a nod toward Jim Crow laws of the not so distant past, make it harder for Black folks, communities of color, the disabled, … Continued