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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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
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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.
Year in Review: Music 2025 Part Two
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.
Year in Review: Music 2025, Part One
The Hard Knock Radio Year-End Roundtable brought together four sharp musical minds to break down the biggest shifts, sounds, and cultural currents of 2025. DJ D Sharp, Nastia Voynovskaya of KQED Arts & Culture, Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop.com, and Jason Myles of This Is Revolution Podcast joined Davey D for a wide-ranging conversation about trends, tours, … Continued
In Memoriam: The Music Icons We Lost in 2025
The conversation is a year end reflection on loss, legacy, and Black music history. Host Davey D brings in Professor Rickey Vincent and broadcaster Gerry Dove to honor a long list of artists who passed in 2025 and the recent years around it, from Frankie Beverly, Sly Stone, Dwayne Wiggins, D Angelo, Angie Stone, Roy … Continued
Davey D sits down with journalists Tim Redmond of 48 Hills and Rasheed Shabazz of Oakland Voices for a local year in review that ties Bay Area stories to national power plays, housing fights, and media battles. Tim opens by arguing that the big political shift in San Francisco is from a fear driven crime narrative … Continued
Year in Review: National News 2025
Davey D closed out 2025 with a sharp, no-nonsense roundtable that examined the year’s major political fault lines while looking ahead to what communities should prepare for in 2026. Joining him were four voices who remained consistent even as platforms shifted and institutions retreated. Melina Abdullah, professor, organizer with Black Lives Matter Grassroots, and host … Continued
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Davey D sits down with award-winning tech journalist Karen Hao to unpack her book Empires of AI—a sweeping critique of how today’s AI boom concentrates power while eroding public agency. Hao traces OpenAI’s arc from a purportedly altruistic nonprofit to a profit-driven juggernaut shaped by the egos and ambitions of its founders. She argues that to evaluate tools … Continued
Year in Review: Afrofuturism 2025 Reflections and 2026 Futures
Hard Knock Radio Afrofuturism Round Table 2025 Reflections and 2026 Futures Davey D closed out the year with the show’s annual Afrofuturism round table, bringing together writers, educators, artists, and cultural critics to reflect on what defined Afrofuturism in 2025 and what may shape 2026. The conversation moved fluidly across film, literature, comics, animation, music, … Continued
Year in Review 2025: Technology and Artificial Intelligence with X. Eyee
In this Hard Knock Radio segment, you and AI expert X. Eyeé walk listeners through the real story of the past year in tech and AI, way beyond the hype about fancy tools and the United States versus China headlines. X explains that California has quietly become the world’s main regulator of AI by passing … Continued
Year in Review 2025: Technology and Artificial Intelligence
This Hard Knock Radio conversation is a year-in-review on tech and AI, with host Davey D chopping it up with Quency Phillips of Lighthouse Innovation Center and social entrepreneur/author Darian Rodriguez Heyman. They start by framing 2025 as the year AI moved from “wow” to “woven in” – no longer just a flashy search trick … Continued