Davey D talks with artist and activist Calina Lawrence and the father of Hip Hop, DJ Kool Herc.
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.
Elections in Ferguson and Respect: Hip Hop Style & Wisdom
Davey D speaks with Hip Hop artist and activist Tef Poe about the recent elections in Ferguson, Missouri. Davey and Eric Arnold talk about the history of Hip Hop and the Oakland Museum exhibit Respect: Hip Hop Style & Wisdom.
Immigration and Police Brutality
Davey D talks with Jasiri X about immigration and Antwan Rose.
Violent Attacks on BART and Justice for Jessica
We talk to BART Board supervisor Lateefah Simon about Black girls being attacked and trouble with BART We talk with Jessica Knowland who heads up The Young Girls Freedom coalition about Justice for Jessica, St Louis
Dhoruba Bin Wahad
This is an interview done in 1990 with Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Harold Channer shortly after he got out of prison.
DARNELL L. MOORE “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America” What happens to the black boys who come of age in neglected, heavily policed, and economically desperate cities that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created? How do they learn to live, love, and grow up? Where … Continued
NOMI PRINS COLLUSION: How Central Bankers Rigged the World A searing exposé of the collusion between central bankers as they control global markets and dictate economic policy… The 2008 financial crisis unleashed a chain reaction that turbo-boosted the influence of central Bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks … Continued
What does a middle-class democracy look like when it falls apart? When – after forty years of economic triumph – the country’s fiscal winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing whasoever to the rest of the country? With his exceptionally sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present day … Continued
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America. Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. The author of last year’s outstanding bestseller, “Tears We Cannot Stop,” Dyson is University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and an editor of The … Continued
Capitalism has been the engine of unprecedented economic growth and social transformation. With the fall of the communist states and the triumph of “neo- liberalism,” capitalism is by far the world’s dominant ideology. But how much do we understand about how it originated, and what makes it work? CAPITALISM is an ambitious and accessible six-part … Continued