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.
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.
Rosa Clemente speaks about the Golden Globes and the Me Too Movement. She also speaks on Puerto Rico. Later REN THE VINYL ARCHAEOLOGIST, the curator of True Skool stops by to discuss upcoming events in the bay area. Image Credit @ RosaClemente.net
Iconic Speeches. We play an array of speeches from iconic figures, Immortal Technique, Fannie Lou Hammer and Sister Souljah. image credit @ Odyssey
On today’s show we discuss young people transforming the world through poetry. And later we discuss the new art exhibit, Game Recognize Game.
Kali Akuno speaks on technology and the 3rd Wave Technology
We speak with Chris Chatmon, the Executive Director of the African American Male Achievement about African-American male achievement and state of education. 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 … Continued
