KPFA - Hard Knock Radio

We speak with Tony Coleman about the legacy of Bikes 4 Life and an upcoming black party.

We speak with Marisa Ashanti about an upcoming fundraiser to take Oaklanders to Ghana for a cultural exchange.

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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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.

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We speak with Professor Laura Briggs PhD about her new book, Taking Children: A History of American Terror an examination of the separation of children from their families has a long history in the United States. The book argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs’s sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the USs anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about crack babies. In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.

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On today’s show we present Things-Taken Remixed, our annual UnThanksgiving remembrance, featuring the voices of John Trudell, and Leonard Peltier and Wilma Mankiller.

For more information about Leonard Peltier, check out these websites, AmnestyUSA and International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

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We speak with unhoused advocate Needa B about increased homelessness and the harassment of unhoused people living in Oakland, California. Later we speak with the creator of #BlackGirlMagic, Cashawn Thompson about the wonderment of Black women, erasure and her latest book project “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Stories of Black Girl Magic.”

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We speak with Jay Quan about Hip-Hop History Month.  https://rockthebells.com/articles/oj-car-service-hip-hop/   and https://mrdaveyd.wordpress.com/tag/jayquan/

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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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.

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We discuss the Jury Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse with Rachel Jackson a member of the People’s Strike Bay Area. Later we speak with Favianna Rodriguez about attending the 2021 climate summit, COP26.

A jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges against him. Rittenhouse faced five counts of homicide and reckless endangerment related to the shooting of three people and the death of two, 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum, of Kenosha, and 26-year-old Anthony Huber, of Silver Lake, Wisconsin in 2020.

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We speak with San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and Rudy Corpuz the Executive Director of United Playaz about the increasingly popular ‘ghost guns’ and prevention. Later Pastor Mike McBride checks in from Oklahoma about Julius Jones being granted clemency hours before he was scheduled to be executed.

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We speak with Lateefah Simon and Hodari B. Davis about the education inequalities and the impacts on Black students.

Guests:

Lateefah Simon is a nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice in Oakland and the Bay Area. She has been the President of Akonadi Foundation since 2016. That same year—driven by Oscar Grant’s death—she was elected to the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors and served as President. She was elected to a second term in November 2020. Since 2015, Lateefah also has served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the California State University, the nation’s largest public university system, and state officials often turn to her for strategic advice on policy matters related to racial justice.

Hodari B. Davis is the Chief Innovation Officer and a partner at Edutainment for Equity. He is also the Artistic Director of E4E Arts, which includes the award-winning youth performance ensemble Young Gifted and Black.

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