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 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.
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.
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.
