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.
with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, an assistant professor of African American History at the University of Florida. Discusses his latest book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course … Continued
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the the time of Baldwin’s death in … Continued
We speak with Pastor Mike McBride about the state of community violence and the peacemakers. We also speak with DJ Kreme and Seneca about the Oakhella crew and an upcoming event
Outspoken Bean introduces his team of youth poets from Houston performing in Brave New Voices; Eric, Adisa and Brian talk about the golden age of Hip Hop
we speak with hip hop scholars, Eric Arnold; Adisa Banjoko; Brian Coleman about the golden age of hip hop.
The escalating threat of white nationalist movement is upon us. Be it a singular racist remark about immigrants on social media, a pro-Trump rally in Berkeley Ca spearheaded by Nazi sympathizers, or the implementation of exclusionary policies that grossly impact America’s poorest and most disenfranchised communities.The current political ideology of nativism (lead by Donald Trump, … Continued
We speak with Khalid El Hakim about white hate groups and the African American Mobile Museum.
We speak with sports professor and icon Harry Edwards about an upcoming event and panel at San Jose State.
we explore homelessness in Oakland, speak with filmmaker Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi about Afrorazones and Mumia examines the collapse of empire.
We speak with Jonah Strauss, the executive director of the Oakland Warehouse Coalition about the San Pablo fire, that killed four people and displacement 100 residents the early-morning of March 27th. Specifically we discussed the continued displacement, racism and the mismanagement of CERP funds. Poor News Network explores the War on The Poor, and political … Continued
