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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 Andrew J Jolivette, Professor and Chair American Indian Studies Department about the battle to save the College of Ethnic Studies from threatened cuts, to the one-of-a-kind program. Later we spoke to Ayanna Davis about the #MUTULISWELCOMEHERE Campaign.
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
Malik I. Taylor, the rapper known as Phife Dawg, a founding member of the legendary hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died yesterday at the age of 45, as a result of complications from diabetes. Last year marked the 25-year anniversary of the group’s first album, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. … Continued
David Roach speaks on Oakland Int’l Film Festival, Tony Coleman speaks on Gentrification and a look at The First Voice Apprenticeship Program
Today we speak with artist and activist Equipto about the 2 year anniversary of Alex Nieto being killed by SFPD. Later on in the show we hear a speech from Jesse Jackson
Hard Knock Radio is a drive-time Hip-Hop talk show on KPFA (94.1 @ 4-5 pm Monday-Friday), a community radio station without corporate underwriting, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
A conversation with scholar and artist Michael Benitez Jr. about race and identity. And Poor News Network segment is dedicated to Mario Woods, Amilcar perez lopez, Alex Nieto and all victims of police terror & gentrification across this stolen indigenous territtory- todays sho is dedicated to black brown and poor peoples unity.
Political commentator Mumia Abu-Jamal discusses the passing of political prisoner Mondo we Langa (formerly known as David Rice); we speak with Raw G about Natalia Lafourcade and their upcoming performance; and later we look at the E12th Council Shutdown protesting gentrification in Oakland.
We speak with POCC’s Chairman Fred Hampton Jr about Donald Trump, Chicago and the 2016 Presidential Election.
We kick things off with a powerful song from Aisha Fukashima about Flint’s water crisis followed with a commentary from Michael Eric Dyson. Later in the show we speak with long time activist Rosa Clemente and we’ll hear from SF state students Black student union talking about saving the college of ethnic studies.
