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.
On today’s show we look at the genius and activism of author James Baldwin through the lens of Master filmmaker Raoul Peck via the film, I Am Not Your Negro. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. … Continued
we look at the USA Gymnastic Sexual Abuse Scandal and the play, Color Struck: SURVIVING THE TRUMPOCALYPSE. Guests: Jessica Mason Pieklo head legal writer and resident women’s sports enthusiast for rewire news. Donald Lacy, comedian, actor and playwright. @ Getty Images – photo of Larry Nassar image credit @ donald lacy.com
we speak with the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza about the State of Our Union convening held in Washington DC in response to President Donald Trump. And later we speak with journalist David Sheen about racist incidents targeting African migrants in Israel. www.thestateofourunion.org www.domesticworkers.org/
We speak with political scientist and author Dr. James Taylor of University of San Francisco about the current state of the union and fall out in SF over London Breed being ousted as mayor. image credit @ usfca.edu
Davey D talks music history with The Dynamic Miss Faye Carroll.
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
