Davey D speaks with journalist Thandisizwe Chimurenga about her latest book, Some of Us Are Brave (Volume 1): Interviews and Conversations with Sistas in Life and Struggle. 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 … Continued
Davey D speaks with journalist Thandisizwe Chimurenga about her latest book, Some of Us Are Brave (Volume 1): Interviews and Conversations with Sistas in Life and Struggle. 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 … Continued
We speak with Jilchristina Vest, Rachel Wolfe-Goldsmith and former Black Panther member Ericka Huggins about the legacy of Black Panther women, BPP survival programs, and the mural in West Oakland that honors these women’s significant contributions. To find out more about the mural visit, https://www.wbppmural.com/ Ericka Huggins is an educator, former Black Panther Party member, … Continued
We speak with long-time activist and co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, Pierre La Boissiere about government corruption, massacres, and Haiti’s rapid descent into dictatorship. And later we’ll look at the Say Her Name movement. This conversation will highlight stories of police murders of Black women and attempt to understand the pattern of erasure that … Continued
I AM SOMEBODY from Icarus Films. I Am Somebody is a 1969 short political documentary by Madeline Anderson about black hospital workers on strike in Charleston South Carolina. This was the first half-hour documentary film by an African-American woman in the film industry union. This film is one of the first to link black women and the fight for civil rights. In 2019, the film was … Continued
Greg Bridges speaks with members of The Onyx, an all black women six member music ensemble. The Onyx is an all black female six member music ensemble. This collective of women came together to solidify unity among women of color and to provide an artistic outlet for the female voice to be heard. Hailing from … Continued
We talk about how women are coping with an escalation of government-sponsored violence in Haiti, and a political crisis we hear little about but which has been going on for over a year. Judith Mirkinson, president of the SF Bay Chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild and the Comfort Women Justice Coalition and Leslie Mullin, long-time member … Continued
we speak with Dr. Joia Crear-Perry about Maternal Health risk for Black women. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor. Dr. Joia Crear-Perry istheFounder and president of theNational Birth Equity Collaborative, and the author of “Race Isnt a Risk Factor in Maternal Health. Racism Is.” Dr. Crear-Perry currently serves on the … Continued
The vote that defeated the pedophile in Alabama was the Black women’s vote. Now what? PLUS: 10 reasons to hope, from social movement struggles. PLUS; your year-end thoughts. With host Kris Welch.
We talk with organizer, writer and freedom dreamer Alicia Garza, one of the founders of the #Black Lives Matter network. .Alicia is also Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. And Giovanna Capone discusses the … Continued
