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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Hard Knock caught up with the talented singer song writer, Daley who most defiantly has a bright future. He spoke with us about his look & his sound, moving from Manchester to London to peruse his career, & more. And later we examine the impacts of gentrification in Oakland Ca.
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Nicole Lee of Black Movement Law Project discusses black votes being taken for granted by Democratic and Republican political parties.
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Celebrity and Activism in the wake of Beyonce’s Formation. And later Bay Area born soul singer Jennifer Johns stops by to talk about her Bon Voyage event. We spoke with Ronnisha Johnson an organizer with Black Lives Matter Bay Area and the Last 3 Percent, a group named after the size of San Francisco’s … Continued
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Long time activist Jamala Rogers discusses her book Ferguson Is America: Roots to Rebellion. She talks about 1972 Black political convention and the existing political landscape in Ferguson.
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We speak with long time activist Rashidah Grinage of Coalition For Police Accountability about the ins and outs of establishing a police commission and the importance of ending Policeman’s Bill of Rights.
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We talk with folks at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts about gentrification and the latest decision to remove mural, to make way for new development. Later we head to San Francisco, the scene of last night’s demonstrations protesting police brutality and the police murder of Mario Woods, a 26 year-old Bayview resident on Dec. … Continued
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We speak with Yahshimabet Sellassie-Hall, a contestant on the Food Network’s Youth Baking program. Later Poor News Network, examines economic injustice on low-income and people of color.
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Davey D speaks with author Steve Phillips about his new book, Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority.
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We cover the Justice for Mario Woods Coalition protest that happened this past Saturday and Asians4BlackLives, a Bay Area group of community organizers of Asian descent, staged a protest to call on East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC) to terminate its partnership with luxury developer UrbanCore and support the community proposal for 100% affordable … Continued
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We cover the Justice for Mario Woods Coalition protest in San Francisco, this past Saturday.
