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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The Long Shadow

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Of all the divisions in America, none is as insidious and destructive as racism. In this powerful documentary, the filmmakers, both privileged daughters of the South, who were haunted by their families slave owning pasts, passionately seek the hidden truth and the untold stories of how America—guided by the South’s powerful political influence—steadily, deliberately and … Continued

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Agents of Change and Together We Rise

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Agents of Change FILM SYNOPSIS From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became … Continued

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Rosa Clemente on Putting Puerto Rico on the Map

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Rosa Clemente discusses putting Puerto Rico on the map  and her new mini-documentary Puerto Rico Rising.  Putting Puerto Rico on the Map – Rosa Clemente at Franklin & Marshall College.  On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. A category 4 storm, it was the strongest hurricane to hit the island in … Continued

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Spare The Kids: Why Whupping Black Children Won’t Save America by Stacey Patton and Malcolm X

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We speak with Stacey Patton, Ph.D about her book, Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Won’t Save Black America.  The book examines the unique cultural and historical specificity of corporal punishment in Black communities. Given the prevalence and acceptance of spanking in American culture, the discussion should be useful to a multitude of listeners. Later we listen to Malcolm X’s … Continued

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Agents of Change

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Agents of Change FILM SYNOPSIS From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became … Continued

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In Conversation with Robert Reich

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On February 6, 2019, KPFA hosted a talk with Robert B. Reich. For decades one of the most farseeing, outspoken public intellectuals in the United States has been Robert B. Reich. Now he provides us with The Common Good, his sixteenth book, a passionate, clear-eyed manifesto urging the recentering of our national economics and politics on the … Continued

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Black Joy Parade and Self-Defense

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We talk to Elisha Greenwell about the Black Joy Parade in Oakland. Later we listen to Huey Newton speak about Gun Control and talk to Ashara Ekundayo about upcoming Black history events at her women-owned gallery.

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Malina Abdullah / Daniel & Sotchi

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Davey D speaks with Malina Abdullah, leader of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter; we have conversation with Daniel and Sotchi of CURYJ about the 2019 Beyond Bars summit