Two former political prisoners speak about upcoming event to honor slain political prisoner Hugo Yogi’ Pinell.
Hard Knock Radio
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.
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 – April 15, 2016
Hard Knock Radio Special KPFA 67th Birthday programming with host Anita Johnson.
The Fatal Shooting of Gongora and Jaramillo; Gun Buy Back
We speak with Frank Sosa from the Anti-Police Terror Project about the fatal shooting of Gongora and Jaramillo. And later we speak with Rudy Corpus of United Playaz about the Gun Buy Back program.
Hip Hop Activism and The National Stolen Lives Cultural Education Tour
We speak with San Francisco raptivist Equipto, Wanna from the Alex Nieto Coalition and Jeff the cousin of Mario Woods about Gentrification and the upcoming 4-15 Day. And later we speak with uthor and activist Anita Wills about the upcoming The National Stolen Lives Cultural Education Tour.
We speak with writer Ericka Blount about US relations with Cuba and the potential impact Obama’s visit will have on the largest Caribbean island nation of Cuba. Filmmaker Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor talks about the upcoming Game Changers Film Forum happening this Thursday.
We speak with Minister Christopher Muhammad about SFPD aggression and the attempts to push Black and Brown people out of the Mission and Bayview areas of San Francisco.