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 Nick Estes

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NICK ESTES with ROXANNE DUNBAR ORTIZ Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock vs the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous … Continued

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Healing Justice, the film

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On today’s show we look at the new film, Healing Justice produced by World Trust in collaboration with Shakti Butler, Ph.D. Healing Justice, explores the causes and consequences of the current American justice system and its effect on marginalized communities. The film walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current … Continued

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Reparations and ADOS

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we speak w/ scholar, artist, author Duane Deterville about reparations, ADOS and the historic context of enslaved Africans.

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Future Culture Summit and David Banner

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We discuss the Future Culture Summit and the importance of method sampling in pushing culture forward. Later we speak with David Banner about the state of hip hop.   We speak with JooWan Kim of Ensemble Mik Nawooj; Alexandros Pagidas and Natalia Ivanova Mount of Pro Arts Gallery. David Banner

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Ethnic Studies and American Education

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We listen to Professor Melina Abdullah, Ph.D talk about Assembly Bill 1640 to make ethnic studies a requirement to graduate. We listen to James Baldwin speak at a high school in Oakland about education.

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Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs” Cannabis

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We speak with seasoned visual artist Tracy Brown, Melonie Green & Melorra Green the Co-Executive Directors of the African American Art & Culture Complex about the exhibit “Smoke & Mirrors: The War on Drugs” Cannabis, if you are interested in the cannabis culture check https://cannabismo.ca/how-to-make-shatter-out-of-your-trim/ to extract shatter wax from the trim. Mirrors: The War … Continued

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America’s War on the Poor

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We speak with activist Needa B about lawsuits being filed on behalf of the homeless. And later Poor News Network examines America’s War on the Poor.   photo credit @Needa B Left photo is of the encampment. Right photo is of Needa B, Homeless advocate.