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 Carl Dix who gives a recap of what went down in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention in Ohio and what to expect at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Later we speak with Aimee Allison about women in the Democratic National Convention and the power plays at work.
The tragic drama “Fences,” won August Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize in 1987. It’s the story of a fallen patriach, former negro league baseball great turned garbage man. However, under the direction of Raelle Myrick-Hodges, the Wilson classic has been revised to provide audiences with a memorably powerful image of a matriarch, played by Oakland-based … Continued
Today on Hard Knock: Davey D speaks with Hip Hop activist John Rivera, Van Jones and B Real of Cypress Hill fame about the 2016 Presidential Election and movement building.
Today on Hard Knock: Davey D speaks with Hip Hop activist Son of None, progressive journalist Marc Lamont Hill and Rod Starz of Rebel Diaz about the 2016 Presidential Election, Electoral Politics and movement building.
Rashida Grinage discusses the introduction of a new measure that will be presented to Oakland City Council on Police Accountability, and later Davey D keeps us up on the happenings in Cleveland and the RNC.
“I am with her – the only progressive woman in the race,” said Dr. Cornel West. West, the renowned scholar and Dr. Jill Stein, American physician, activist, and the Green Party’s presumptive nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election spoke with Hard Knock’s host, Davey D about America’s predatory economy and … Continued
On today’s program we speak with author Monique W. Morris, about her new book PushOut: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. An examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, resource officers and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with … Continued
As disenfranchised communities all over the country combat the impacts of gentrification. We speak with Brian Drayton the owner of Spokes, about his struggle to not be moved or displaced from his storefront in Oakland, California. Also Poor News Network brings us a report on the Economic War Against the Poor in America.
When most people talk about Hip Hop Dance, they think of what is known as B-Boying but commonly known as break dancing in the mainstream. They think of people of doing elaborate spins on their backs or highly choreographed, robotic, strutting, clay-mation type movements that defy what many have imagined our bodies could do. Most … Continued
On today’s program, we discuss the new exhibit, “Black Women Is God” with Karen Senferu and Melorra Green. Later we talk about the future of Oakland’s youth with Liz Derias-Tyehimba, the executive director of West Oakland Youth Center. Guests: Karen Seneferu is a self-taught artist that was born and raised in Oakland California. She … Continued
