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 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
we speak with rewire journalist Auditi Guha about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Later Julieta Kusnir speaks with author Imogene Tondre about her book, Cuba: The Cookbook. A unique compilation of authentic home-cooking recipes from Cuba, reflecting the island’s remarkable culinary diversity. State Water Filters Prove Lacking in Flint, a City ‘Full of … Continued
We speak with Rukia Lumumba the daughter of the late Chokwe Lumumba about the Electoral Justice Project.
we present a discussion on the role of art and culture in the current political moment moderated by Davey D. The discussion featured Akonadi Foundations 2018 commissioned artist, Joshua Mays, and past poster contributors Janine Macbeth and Robert Trujillo. Each commissioned artists participated in the Racial Justice Poster Project, a project that lifts up arts … Continued
