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 Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi about the Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico. Later we discuss the United States failure to submit a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with long-time housing and human rights activist Needa B and Steven DeCaprio the executive director of The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) The Photo Credit @Eli Jacobs … Continued
Hodari Davis discusses the importance of education and Mumia Abu-Jamal explores the realities of Donald Trump in the White House.
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 child … Continued
We look back on the Los Angeles gang truce and Uprisings of 92 with a key architect of the gang truce, Twilight Bey. photo credit @ Jeremy Selwyn
we speak with Nomi from Power Struggle about Filipino activist Jerome Aba being detained and tortured at SFO. We speak with Sunspot Jonz about his new movie and the latest happenings with Living Legends.
we speak with Dr. Joia Crear-Perry about Maternal Health risk for Black women. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor. Dr. Joia Crear-Perry is the Founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, and the author of “Race Isn’t a Risk Factor in Maternal Health. Racism Is.” Dr. Crear-Perry currently serves on the … Continued
We speak with Meron Estefanos about human trafficking and slavery in Libya. And later we speak with singer Lizz Wright about her 5th studio album, Freedom & Surrender. Wright has re-emerged, after a long hiatus, with a renewed creative spark and a new kind of perspective that only a lived life can provide.
We speak with Tondra, she lived next door to the man who killed the people at the Waffle House. She gives us some insight as to what happened.
We speak with Jessica Ayo about repressive measures and the criminalization of activism on college campuses.
We speak with Dorsey Nunn from All of us or None about the current prison system and the weed economy. We speak with Cannabis advocate Nina Parks about equity and access in the weed economy.
