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.
Many families can’t afford to live in good performing school districts, and sometimes, parents like Tonya McDowell, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, may not abide the school requirements to get their child a good education. Yet many school districts considers that theft. Tonya McDowell, a 34-year old, single mother was sentenced to five years in prison for … Continued
We talk with Tony Coleman about activism and 10 year anniversary of Bikes 4 Life. text “SAVEBIKES4LIFE” to 44-321 to donate $5 or more.
We speak with Josh Healy and actor Santiago Rosas about the new web series the North Pole. And we speak with Michael Orange about the Matatu festival.
We talk with Dave Roach about the Oakland International Film Festival. Later we talk with Film makers Vivian Vasquez and Gretchen Hildebran about their film Decades of Fire The South Bronx
Today we speak with SOL Development’s Karega Bailey to discuss music, education, love, Blackness and cultural identity. SOL Development is being touted as the new group to champion out of the West Coast. The four-person collective’s sound has been described as jazz, hip-hop, and, of course, soulful. We begin with Karenga discussing the song Helicopter … Continued
We speak with the executive director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Nana Gyamfi about plight of folks from the Bahamas and immigration. And later we examine inequalities that working women face, including the physical, emotional, and practical effects of these disproportionate labor loads via the lens of Counting the Hours, a new exhibition from … Continued
we speak with Antique Naked Soul about their new music project.
We speak with Artnelson Concordia, SFUSD Ethnic Studies Teacher on Special Assignment about Ethnic Studies and the fight to take it nationwide.
We talk with Professor Walter Turner about the legacy of Robert Mugabe.
we discuss the ongoing crisis at the border and the treatment of migrants, being held inside US Immigration detention centers and later we look at creating a new database that deals with keeping track of corrupt cops.
