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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.
We speak with individuals in Antioch about the latest challenges involving a racist publication. Guests: Frank Sterling is the Technical Director First Voice Media · KPFA and The Pacifica Network. Councilwoman Tamisha Torres-Walker, who is Black and represents District 1 in Antioch, CA.
We speak with activists about the rise in anti-Asian attacks during the pandemic. Guests: Michelle Mush Lee is a Cultural Affairs Commissioner and the founder of awhile Story Group, LLC / organizer of Stories of Solidarity Hyejin Shim is an organizer and cofounder of Survived and Punished, and is also a member of the Korean … Continued
We talk to filmmaker Cheo Tyehimba Taylor about his new film East Oakland Rising. This documentary highlights the stories of everyday people coming together to build relationships and trust, knowledge and understanding, and collective determination to fight environmental racism, unfair housing policies, and gentrification in East Oakland, CA, one of the last predominantly-African American communities … 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 Pecolia Manigo and Kampala Taiz-Rancifer about the push to reopen in-person instruction. We also explore the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color. Guests: Pecolia Manigo with Bay Area PLAN Kampala Taiz-Rancifer with the Oakland Education Association photo: MChe Lee via Unsplash
We speak with Jelani Cobb about the future of the GOP. Later Poor News Network examines America’s War on the Poor.
We look back at the murder of Biggie Smalls with acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan and Russell Poole, the former Los Angeles Police Department detective. Sullivan and Poole are the authors of LAbyrinth: The True Story of City of Lies, the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. and the Implication of the Los Angeles Police … 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.
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.
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross: A Black Women’s History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Discuss their New Book, A Black Women’s History of the United States. Reaching from the year 1600 to the present day, A Black Women’s History of the United States – written by renowned authors and historians … Continued
