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 Jodi Jacobson about the current status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program and Democrats inability to pass a resolution on DACA. Later we speak with the hip hop group Alphabet Rockers about their new cd and Grammy nomination for Best Children’s Album. Guests: Jodi Jacobson, the president and editor in … Continued
We speak with Tim Redmond of 48 Hills about the ousting of London Breed to make room for a caretaker mayor to run SF. Later REN THE VINYL ARCHAEOLOGIST, the curator of True Skool stops by to discuss upcoming events in the bay area.
we speak with journalist and historian, Rasheed Shabazz about discrimination in the city of Alameda and the attempt to remove monuments of white supremacy.
we speak with two undocumented siblings Santi Salazar and Layidusa Salazar about the impending ICE raids in the Bay Area. image credit @ Joe Brusky on Flickr
we speak with Hip-Hop/Neo-Soul artist Osunfemi Wanbi Njeri about her artistry, Sickle Cell, and Yoruba. image credit @ Osunfemi Wanbi Njeri
Due to an increase in police aggression in America. Many are questioning the nature of policing in United States. Police reformers have issued a nation-wide call to radically change police institutions and build alternatives to the police. Today on Hard Knock, we examine the possibility of an end to tradition policing in the United States. … Continued
we speak with Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter about her new book, “When They Call You a Terrorist – A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” co-written with Asha Bandele, Cullors challenges the terrorist label while providing a backstory to the group’s cause. image credit @ patrissecullors.com
we honor the legacies of Pam The Funkstress and Edwin Hawkins. Pam Warren, better known as Pam the Funkstress, died Dec. 22. Warren was an influential DJ who spun for Prince and was a longtime member of The Coup Edwin Hawkins, the singer best known for popularising urban gospel music during the 1960s, has died at the … Continued
we play a number of speeches of Dr King. One is him speaking to youth at a middle school in Philadelphia. The other is him speaking at in August 1967 about his entrance into the civil rights movement.
we speak with Cat Brooks, a member of the ONYX Organizing Committee and the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) about the 96 Hours of Direct Action, Non-Compliance Over King Day Weekend. The direct action, is an act of resistance in the face of domestic terrorism waged on America’s most marginalized communities.
