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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. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.
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We speak with Refuse Fascism organizer, Xochitl Johnson about resisting Fascism in the Wake of Trump and the upcoming national protest set to take place on November 4th, 2017. Later we speak with Ren about events happening in the Bay Area and Beyond.
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We speak with Rosa Clemente about the Woman’s Convention and Puerto Rico. Also our bi-monthly entertainment segment with Ren The Vinyl Archaeologist.
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We speak with actress Ryan Nicole about “Thomas and Sally” a play that explores Thomas Jefferson’s long term sexual domination of his slave, Sally Hemings. Presented by the Marin Theatre, Mill Valley Company the play distorts the true nature and history of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
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We speak with activist AD Carson, Ph.D. about how his rap album/dissertation, “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions,” led to his arrest at Clemson University. photo credit/copyright @news.virginia.edu
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Today on Hard Knock: Art and Race Conference, 2017 – Impact Hub, Oakland. Featured Panel: Water & Fire – Race Politics from Standing Rock To Ghost Ship To San Pablo. Panelists: Dorothy Santos, Favianna Rodriguez, Christian Frock, and Jonathan Axtell. Moderated by Davey D.
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we speak with Hodari Davis about the 10th Annual Life is Living Festival. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor. Life is Living Festival takes place October 28th at Little Bobby Hutton Park (DeFremery) in West Oakland from 10am-7pm
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We discuss unlearning racism, white fragility and useful strategies and practical tools for white people committed to racial justice.
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we speak with Nora Barrows-Friedman about the attempts by AIPAC to shutdown dissent. And later we speak with two homeless activists about pending evictions of their Berkeley encampment near BART.
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We hear a panel discussion on white supremacy, politics and intersectionality with journalist Jelani Cobb and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.
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we speak with Africa Today’s host Walter Turner about the latest news out of the Niger and US influence.
