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 hunger strike participants camped out in front of the SF Mission Police Department. Poor News Network explores economic violence against communities of color and Gift of Gab stops by to talk about an upcoming gig at Slims in San Francisco.
We speak with Kuttin Kandi, a People’s Hip Hop DJ Scholar and long-time Hip Hop activist about the allegations of child molestation against Hip Hop Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa.
Day five of a hunger strike in front of Mission Police Station in San Francisco, Calif. Community activists outraged by recent killings by San Francisco Police, are refusing to eat until Chief Suhr’s resigns. HKR’s Davey D speaks with Jeff Adachi , the elected Public Defender of San Francisco, and activists Equipto and Sellassie. … Continued
We speak to NY based activists Kevin Powell and Lumumba Bindele about the Akai Gurley case. Later we hear a throwback speech from Sister Souljah and her response to Bill Clinton’s Sister Souljah Momement
Two former political prisoners speak about upcoming event to honor slain political prisoner Hugo Yogi’ Pinell.
KPFA DJs Greg Bridges, Rickey Vincent, Gary Baca and Will Nichols on Prince.
On the program today, we speak with organizer Cat Brooks about the defunding of Youth Programs in Oakland and Jay-Marie Hill talks about the new album The Revolution Has Come.
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his latest book, Between the World and Me. Between the World and Me is Ta–Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.
We speak with Oakland artists Refa-1 and Duane Deterville about their upcoming trip to Africa. We hear a speech from PL Lumumba.
Hard Knock Radio Special KPFA 67th Birthday programming with host Anita Johnson.
