Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio

4:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - FRIDAYS

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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In Conversation with Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff

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The role of news media in a free society is to investigate, inform, and provide a crucial check on political power. But does it actually do any of these things?  It’s no secret that the goal of corporate-owned media is to increase the profits of the few, not to empower the many. As a result, … Continued

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In Conversation with Peter Jan Honigsberg

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On January 11th, 2002, the first planeload of twenty detainees from Afghanistan arrived at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Eventually 780 Muslim men were held at Guantanamo, many for ten years or longer, and nearly all were never charged with a crime—a violation of America’s foundational belief in due process and the rule … Continued

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In Conversation with Ian Haney Lopez – Fund Drive Special Programming

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Ian Haney teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. One of the nation’s leading thinkers on how racism has evolved since the civil rights era, his current research emphasizes the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States. In Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism … Continued

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I Am Somebody – Fund Drive Special Programming

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I AM SOMEBODY from Icarus Films. I Am Somebody is a 1969 short political documentary by Madeline Anderson about black hospital workers on strike in Charleston South Carolina. This was the first half-hour documentary film by an African-American woman in the film industry union. This film is one of the first to link black women and the fight for civil rights. In 2019, the film was … Continued

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Whose Streets? – Fund Drive Special Programming

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WHOSE STREETS? Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial … Continued

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In Conversation with Blair Imani – Fund Drive Special Programming

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BLAIR IMANI MAKING OUR WAY HOME: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream.   “Blair Imani enlivens African American history for a new generation with her      dynamic and thoughtful account of African American migration and resilience.”                           —Jamia Wilson, Publisher of Feminist Press     Over the course of six decades an unprecedented wave of Black … Continued