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.
Power to Heal Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution The untold story of how the twin struggles for racial justice and healthcare intersected: creating Medicare and desegregating thousands of hospitals at the same time. POWER TO HEAL tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. … Continued
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I AM This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition. Davey D … Continued
P.E. MOSKOWITZ THE CASE AGAINST FREE SPEECH: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent . P. E. Moskowitz wrote the renowned bestseller, How To Kill a City, which revealed the systemic forces behind the gentrification ruining such major American cities as San Francisco, New York, New Orleans and Detroit. Now, with The Case … Continued
We speak with executive director of CAIR, Zahara Brillooo about her recent departure from the Woman’s Mar h board. We speak with Nora Barrows Friedman of Electronic Intifada about an app created by Israeli government to target BDS supporters
we speak with youth in San Ramon about Climate Change. And later we speak with Antique Naked Soul about their new music project.
We speak with Professor James Taylor about Trump Impeachment Inquiry. And later filmmaker and activist Kevin Epps discusses his recent court cases.
We speak with actor Roger Guenveur Smith about the new movie My Father Belize. And True Skool with Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist.
Tim Redmond talks about the fight around a navigation center and homelessness in SF. And a conversation with Kelley Kali about her film, Lalo’s House, a moving and horrifying tale about child-trafficking. Set in Haiti, the short film follows 2 Haiti girls who are kidnapped and forced into a prostitution network that fronts as a … Continued
We speak with Gunna who was featured in the movie ‘Last Black Man in SF’ we hear excerpts of James Baldwin talking about San Francisco in the 1960’s.
we speak with artist, environmental justice advocate Aisha Fukushima about the Global Climate Crisis. Later we air a portion of a panel discussion that features T.I., Killer Mike, Candace Owens, Steven Pargett Of Trap The Vote, Katrina Pierson, & Tamika D Mallory. The panel was part of the Revolt Summit held in Atlanta Georgia the … Continued
