KPFA - Hard Knock Radio

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 Hip Hop artist / activist Bambu about politics and Hip Hop and his latest album, Sharpest Tool In The Shed. Later we speak with Claudia Walker the author of The ABC’s of HBCU’s. The first ABC book dedicated to historically Black colleges and universities.

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We speak with Allisa Charles-Findley about the murder of her brother Botham Jean. On September 6, 2018, off-duty Dallas Police Department patrol officer Amber Guyger entered the Dallas, Texas, apartment of 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean and fatally shot him. Guyger said that she had entered the apartment believing it was her own and that she shot Jean believing he was a burglar. https://bothamjeanfoundation.org/mission/

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We speak with Professor Tina B. wright about the current state of affairs around the rise in authoritarianism and the Balkanization of the United States.

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We hear more testimony from Malik Rahim about the white vigilantes hunting Blacks in the aftermath of Katrina

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We speak with Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson about the ravages of Hurricane Ida and what that means for the Gulf Coast and the larger impact of Climate Change.

We hear a testimony from former Black Panther Malik Rahim about white vigilantes hunting down Black people in the Algiers section of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

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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 social entrepreneur and connector of the urban landscape who facilitates the creation of “collaboratory” spaces where methodology amplifying the intersections of social permaculture, social entrepreneurship, and social justice can be manifested. AAFR is  currently running a campaign to bring more awareness to Black August with “9 Days of Radical Practice” that ends this Sunday with a guided meditation by Ashara. More info can be found here > https://www.artistasfirstresponder.com/radicalpractice

POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit, arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.

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We discuss the life and legacy of Black Agenda Report’s co-founder Glen Ford and the scholarship of Dr. Runoko Rashidi.

Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence–that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement.  He is the author or editor of twenty-two books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence, Assata-Garvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017 and The Black Image in Antiquity in 2019.

Glen Ford a veteran journalist and co-founder of Black Agenda Report. Glen Ford spent more than four decades delivering the news from a Black perspective on a national scale.

Guests:

Herb Boyd is an awarding winning author and journalist.  He has written or edited over twenty-three books, including his latest, The Diary of Malcolm X, edited with Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter. His articles have been published in the Black Scholar, Final Call, the Amsterdam News, Cineaste, Downbeat, the Network Journal, and the Daily Beast. A scholar for more than forty years, he teaches African American history and culture at the City College of New York in Harlem, where he lives.

W. Paul Coates is the founder and director of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing, which specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. A leader in the field of small publishers, Coates founded BCP Digital Printing in 1995 to produce books and documents using digital print technology. Coates formerly served as an African American Studies reference and acquisition librarian at Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. He is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University (M.S.L.S.), and Sojourner-Douglass College. A former member and Maryland State coordinator of The Black Panther Party, he was instrumental in the establishment of the Black Panther Party Archives at Howard University.

Raymond Nat Turner is a member of the NWU NY Local Steering Committee and NYC poet privileged to have read at the Harriet Tubman Centennial Symposium. He is Artistic Director of the stalwart JazzPoetry Ensemble UpSurge and has appeared at numerous festivals and venues including the Monterey Jazz Festival and Panafest in Ghana West Africa. He currently is Poet-in-Residence at Black Agenda Report.

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We speak with Dr. Sumi Cho about the politics and disinformation campaign around critical race theory.

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We speak with Uncle Bobby about former BART police officer Tony Pirone. And we speak with Oakland singers, Dwayne Wiggins and Kiedra about their recent trip to Ghana.

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