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.
We speak with author Malik Wade about his book Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom and later environmental activists discuss global warming, community protection and the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit.
We speak with Dr. James Taylor the director of the African American Studies program at the University of San Francisco about the Kavanaugh hearings. image credit @ gettyimages
We speak with Rosa Clemente about hot topics that examine the political and social culture of the United States. This conversation was recorded last week. Rosa Alicia Clemente is an organizer, political commentator and independent journalist. An Afro-Puerto Rican born and raised in the Bronx, NY.
We speak with Dr. James Taylor about the Kavanaugh Hearings. Later we check in with filmmaker Fleetwood about his latest film exploring Black Fatherhood. Fleetwood’s indiegogo campaign “ZEPHANIAH” There is a new documentary film being directed by Robert ” Fleetwood” Bowden entitled ZEPHANIAH, and it is based on embracing the responsibilities of fatherhood and the … Continued
we speak with filmmaker Boots Riley about his new film Sorry To Bother You. Later we speak with author Khalid White about Black Fatherhood.
We speak with Ash Maynor about the new EP release from Ghost and the City. photo credit @ Ghost and The City.com
We talk with local Bike organizer Najari Smith and civil rights attorney Walter Riley about Oakland Police arresting and jamming up Black bicyclists during First Fridays. And later Poor News Network examines America’s War on the Poor.
Twenty years after the album’s release, Morgan (author of the critical feminist work When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost) looks back on Hill’s impact on pop culture in She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
We speak with former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad about the death of John McCain, the anniversary of Emmett Till and the humanitarian crisis in the Congo.
we speak with Civil Rights attorney Eva Patterson about Paul Manafort, Presidential pardons and Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh and why he must be stopped. Later, we speak with Ernesto Falcon from EFF about Net Neutrality and Police surveillance via new technology
