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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.
Continuation of our conversation with Melissa May Borja, Ph.D., about the Virulent Hate Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative that studies anti-Asian racism and Asian American activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report from the project focuses on the nature of anti-Asian racism reported by the news media in 2020. Forthcoming reports will analyze Asian … Continued
A two-part series on The Virulent Hate Project. We speak with lead researcher Melissa May Borja, Ph.D., about the Virulent Hate Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative that studies anti-Asian racism and Asian American activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new report from the project focuses on the nature of anti-Asian racism reported by the news … Continued
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.
We speak with George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd about the Derek Chauvin receiving 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. We hear audio from the press conference. Lastly we speak with raptivist Kev Choice about Black Music Matters.
We speak Paradise Gray, the chief curator for The Universal Hip Hop Museum about Black music month. Later Poor News Network explores America’s war on the poor.
We speak with community activists about the mass shooting in Oakland that left one dead (Dashawn Rhoades, an Oakland and San Francisco resident) and seven people injured at Lake Merritt last weekend. Davey D spoke with activists at yesterday’s Peace Rally held at Oakland’s Lake Merritt. Featured Speakers: Donald Lacy, Chaney Turner, William from All … Continued
We speak with the family members of Angelo Quinto and attorney John Burris about the case of Angelo Quinto, a 30-year-old Asian-American Navy veteran who died days after police officers kneeled on the back of his neck to subdue him. We speak with Texas organizer Christina Tzintzun about the attempts to suppress the vote in … Continued
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.
We speak with Dr. Kim Rhoads about the state of California reopening and what that means. Are we post pandemic?
On today’s program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin was a pacifist, homosexual and practitioner of nonviolence who dedicated his life to racial equality, economic justice and ending warfare. And we speak with writer Kevin Epps about his new book … Continued
