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Hard Knock Radio

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.

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A Tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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01.15.18 - 4:00pm

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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.  


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96 Hours of Direct Action: Reclaiming Dr. King’s Radical Legacy

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01.12.18 - 4:00pm

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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.


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Golden Globes and the #MeToo Movement

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01.11.18 - 4:00pm

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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


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Iconic Speeches

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01.10.18 - 4:00pm

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Iconic Speeches. We play an array of speeches from iconic figures, Immortal Technique, Fannie Lou Hammer and Sister Souljah. image credit @ Odyssey 


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We Got Next: Young Poets and Game Recognize Game

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01.09.18 - 4:00pm

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On today’s show we discuss young people transforming the world through poetry. And later we discuss the new art exhibit, Game Recognize Game.  


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The 3rd Wave Technology 

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01.08.18 - 4:00pm

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Kali Akuno speaks on technology and the 3rd Wave Technology


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African American Male Achievement and Singer Lizz Wright

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01.05.18 - 4:00pm

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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


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Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Immigrants and Poor News Network

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01.04.18 - 4:00pm

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On today’s program we discuss the long-terms impacts of Temporary Protected Status or TPS for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have been granted visas, living in the United States. Later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor.   photo credit @ Center for American Progress


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Martin Grizzell: Coded Quilts 

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01.03.18 - 4:00pm

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we speak with artist Martin Grizzell about the historic coded messages behind his series of Quilts and Kimono’s titled LUSAKA. photo credit @ Hopkins Street Center | by Connecticut State Library.      


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Iconic Speeches

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01.02.18 - 4:00pm

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Iconic Speeches. We play an array of speeches from iconic figures, Immortal Technique, Fannie Lou Hammer and Sister Souljah. image credit @ Odyssey 


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