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.
We speak with Ernesto Omar Falcon of Electronic Frontier Foundation about the newly proposed laws to get rid of privacy on the internet. Later we talk to Oakland businessman Ray Bobbitt about lawsuit against the Raiders leaving Oakland. And sports columnist Dave Zirin chimes in about the NFL, the Raiders and Colin Kaepernick.
We speak with actor Lawrence Hilton Jacobs about the 40th anniversary of Roots. And later we speak with local actors/ activist DJ Wonway and his fellow cast of actors about “To the Bone” a play about Immigration. TO THE BONE, by Lisa Ramirez is a contemporary American drama written in the tradition of John Steinbeck’s … Continued
Today on HardKnock: The murder of Desmond Phillips at the hands of police in Chico, California. Phillips died after he was shot multiple times in an encounter with officers that began about 7:30 p.m. 3/17/17 at an apartment in the 700 block of West Fourth Avenue in Chico. We’ll speak with journalist Yessenia Funes, about … Continued
Today on HardKnock: Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and former presidential candidate Maryse Narcisse evades an assassination attempt that leaves at least two people wounded. When Haitian police fired at a motorcade carrying former president Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president. We’ll speak with Pierre Labossiere, the co-founder of Haiti Action Committee about the assassination … Continued
author and journalist Pendarvis Harshaw talks about his new book an ‘OG Told Me’.
We speak with Professor Emerita Marjorie Cohn about Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil M. Gorsuch.
We pay tribute to Rock ‘n’ Roll, pioneer Chuck Berry. Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry born October 18, 1926 is considered the Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll, died on March 18th, 2017 at his home outside St. Louis. And later we hear a speech from Kwame Toure
we speak with Palestinian rap trio Shoruq and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal with the “Discussion Class”.
Davey D talks with David Roach about the Oakland International Film Festival and Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor.
We speak with journalist and music critic John Villanova, about the limitation of Black Excellence within the confines of Award shows. John Vilanova is a third-year PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication. His broad research and writing agenda focuses on the production, reception, and consumption of African American and Afro-diasporic music. His current … Continued
