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Hard Knock Radio


Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show produced in Oakland, CA. Regular broadcasts on Bay Area community radio station KPFA 94.1. Hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson give voice to issues ignored by the mainstream while planting seeds for social change.

Apologies about the transition today with end of HKR — Davey D interview with Odie Henderson on Black Cinema and new book “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema”  Audio file is below for today’s show.  Or check out their webpage Hard Knock Radio at KPFA

Thanks for your support to 91.3FM KBCS HD-1

Open to Debate

America is more divided than ever—but it doesn’t have to be. Open to Debate offers an antidote to the chaos. We bring multiple perspectives together for real debates. Debates that are structured, respectful, clever, provocative, and driven by the facts. Open to Debate is on a mission to restore balance to the public square through expert moderation, good-faith arguments, and reasoned analysis. We examine the issues of the day with the world’s most influential thinkers spanning science, technology, politics, culture, and global affairs. It’s time to build a stronger, more united democracy with the civil exchange of ideas. Be open-minded. Be curious. Be ready to listen. Join us in being Open to Debate.

City Arts & Lectures

Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented events with leading figures in the world of arts and ideas. Each season there are more than fifty lectures and onstage conversations and a few surprise performance events with outstanding figures in literature, criticism, science and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values.

Commonwealth Club of CA

The Commonwealth Club of California is the largest and oldest public affairs forum in the U.S. For over 90 years, the Club has been presenting address by individuals actively concerned with the day-to-day decisions that can affect lives and livelihoods across the nation and around the world. Recent speakers have included Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala; Former Secetary of State Henry Kissinger; 1992 Presidential Candidate Ross Perot; Feminist Author Susan Faludi; and Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates. The Club’s non-partisan policy strives to bring a balanced viewpoint on all issues in its commitment to “getting the facts.”  

Philosophy Talk

Philosophy on the radio? You’ve got to be kidding? Well, sometimes we do (kid, that is). Mostly we look at today’s important ideas with an eye to thinking them through.

Philosophy Talk is a weekly, one-hour radio series. The hosts’ down-to-earth and no-nonsense approach brings the richness of philosophic thought to everyday subjects. Topics are lofty (Truth, Beauty, Justice), arresting (Terrorism, Intelligent Design, Suicide), and engaging (Baseball, Love, Happiness).

This is not a lecture or a college course; it’s philosophy in action!

Philosophy Talk is a fun opportunity to explore issues of importance to your audience in a thoughtful, friendly fashion, where thinking is encouraged.

Travel with Rick Steves

Travel with Rick Steves is appointment radio for listeners with a trusted friend, who happens to be one of their favorite public broadcasting personalities. Heard weekly on more than 500 radio stations, Rick’s conversations with guest travel experts and callers create vicarious adventures and global perspectives that bring loyal listeners back, week after week.

YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali

Rising Up with Sonali is an all-women run show that brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender and racial justice.

Making Contact

Making Contact, is an award-winning, 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on over 160 radio stations in the USA, Canada and elsewhere. Making Contact is committed to in-depth critical analysis that goes beyond the breaking news. – Ordinary people talk about how public policy affects their daily lives, families and communities, and share positive ways to solve problems. – Most shows are “evergreen” – can be played any time. See years of archived documentaries are available. – Excellent production quality and customer service.

Between the Lines


Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis:
Between The Lines is a weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine featuring progressive perspectives on national and international political, economic and social issues.

Featuring:

– A five-minute summary of some of the week’s under-reported news stories gathered from the alternative press and other sources.

– Three in-depth interview segments focusing on significant international, national and regional issues.

Our Goal: Supporting Citizen Activism 

Alternative Radio

Alternative Radio is a weekly 57-minute public affairs series that features diverse perspectives on national and international issues. Alternative Radio challenges conventional views and is dedicated to the founding principles of public broadcasting: “to serve as a forum for controversy and debate” and “provide a voice for groups that may otherwise be unheard.” Programs feature Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy, David Suzuki, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Michelle Alexander and many others.