PATRISSE CULLORS is an artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. Co-founder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, public speaker, and an NAACP History Maker. In​ 2016, Patrisse received the Defender of the Dream Award from the AFL-CIO Executive Council Committee on Civil and Human Rights, the Revolution … Continued


We speak with Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru House about Gun control and how it relates to Black Liberation. He also discusses the significance of activist and Black Panther founder Huey Newton, born on February 17, 1942. image credit @ www.apspuhuru.org


We speak with Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the Uhuru House about Gun control and how it relates to Black Liberation. He also discusses the significance of activist and Black Panther founder Huey Newton, born on February 17, 1942. image credit @ www.apspuhuru.org


Hard Knock Radio

In Conversation with Christopher Mathias and Roger Guenveur Smith

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Today on Hard Knock we talk with journalist Christopher Mathias about his recent Huffington Post article regarding white supremacists running for public office in coming elections around the country. We also speak with award winning actor and playwright Roger Guenveur Smith about his one man play “Frederick Douglas Now”.


Up next on Hard Knock, we present a conversation featuring Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson discussing his new book, Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi. The conversation took place this past Sunday and was organized and hosted by East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) and Center for Political Education … Continued


On today’s show we speak with Verbena Lea, a volunteer with the Prisoner Hunger Strike Committee to End Sleep Deprivation in California Prisons. Today lawyers for two prisoners, Christopher Lipsey and Maher Suarez, argued against an attempt by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to dismiss civil rights cases brought on behalf of … Continued