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
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.
Filipino activist Jerome Aba Detainment at San Francisco International Airport and Sunspot Jonz
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.
Repression on Campus
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.
We speak with journalist Angela Bronner-Helm about the sentencing of Lakeith Smith in Alabama. And later we speak with artivist Tef Poe about the legacy of Barbara Bush.
We speak with Rhonda Ramiro about protests at the San Francisco International Airport over the pending deportation of filipino youth organizer Jerome Aba. And later we speak with songstress Jazzmeia Horn about the future of music.
We speak with author and activist Kevin Powell about Kendrick Lamar winning a Pulitzer Prize and the current political climate. Later we speak with Carla about the upcoming Oakland Dance Festival.