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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We speak with Jabali Smith, the author of Slave: A Human Trafficking Survivor Finds Life. Jabali Smith was a 6-yr-old in Berkeley, California when he was trafficked along with his sister over the border into Mexico and held captive by a messianic doomsday sex cult. SLAVE courageously and boldly chronicles his journey as a … Continued
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we speak with Akinyele Umoja, professor at Georgia State University about the 2018 election outcomes.
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we check in with Makani Themba-Nixon and Leon Sykes about the outcomes of the 2018 Elections.
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We hear from civil rights leaders past and present about the struggle to vote.
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We speak with Ash Maynor about Time, the new EP release from Ghost and the City. photo credit @ Ghost and The City.com
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We discuss the passing Ntozake Shange the author of FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF with artists/activists Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Jessica Care Moore. We also look at Black Women Rock concert series and Re-Imagining Political Power.
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we look at voting and political activism with hip hop artist and entrepreneur Mr. F.A.B.
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we look Black Fatherhood with filmmaker Fleetwood, a look at the purposed expansion of the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo, Ca. And later we political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal explores the Pittsburgh shooting. Also Black Agenda’s Bruce Dixon discusses the working poor and corporate greed.
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We discuss the carnage in Pittsburgh and homegrown terrorism in the United States. Later we look at elections in Brazil and the plight of people of African descent. our guests: Professor Jelani Cobb Professor Molefi Asante Jihad Haritz
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Part Two of our conversation covering “Media and Black Images”. The discussion was hosted by the Bay Area Black Journalist Association and moderated by Davey D. The panel included local media figures, Christine Ayers of KPIX and Armand from KBLX, P Frank Williams, of TV One and Van Latham of TMZ.
