We speak with author activist Bakari Kitwana about the political state of affairs in Ohio under Trump and police accountability. We speak with organizer of the historic Berkeley Flea Market and how they are impacted by gentrification.
Today on HardKnock: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and former presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse evades an assassination attempt that leaves at least two people wounded. When Haitian police fired at a motorcade carrying former president Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president. We’ll speak with Pierre Labossiere, the co-founder of Haiti Action Committee about the assassination … Continued
In conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Ph.D, assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton University and the author of the new book: “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”—a political analysis of the Black Lives Matter movement, the history of policing and race in the United States, and divisions between the black political establishment and today’s Black Lives … Continued
On today’s program we discussed the mass arrest of peaceful protesters in El Cajon, California at the site of last month’s fatal police shooting of Alfred Olango, a 38 year-old, Black, disabled man who was unarmed when shot and killed on September 27, in a confrontation with police in the parking lot of a shopping … Continued
We speak with basketball legend Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf about his stance against the national anthem 20 years ago and athletes protesting it now. Later we hear a poem from Amiri Baraka.
Yesterday marked the second night, protesters gathered in El Cajon, California to demand accountability following another shooting death of an unarmed Black man by police. Alfred Olango sister called the authorities for assistance when he began acting usual due to him suffering a seizure. Once police arrived on the scene things escalated ending in Mr. … Continued
On today’s edition of Hard Knock, we discuss the resignation of Oakland’s Chief of Police Sean Whent with Anti Police Terror Project organizer, Cat Brooks. We also speak with Khalid El-Hakim about the mobile Black History Museum he started in Detroit. He talks about some of the unique artifacts he has in his collection.
We speak with LGBTQ activist Chaney Turner about the slayings in Orlando as we pay tribute to the victims. Later we speak with Rashida Grenage, Pamela Drake and Reggie Lyles about police reform efforts in Oakland, California.
Hard Knock Radio’s Davey D covers the hunger strike in San Francisco over the battle to fire Police Chief Suhr and SF State students battle to Save the College of Ethnic Studies.
We look at the ongoing hunger strike in San Francisco Ca to protest police terrorism and later we speak with Kin Folkz about “The Same Difference,” the documentary that examines tensions in the lesbian community over race and gender expression.
