Hard Knock Radio – April 22, 2015
KPFA’s daily drive-time Hip Hop Talk Show, featuring hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson, who hit the air every day at 4 pm offering news, views, breaks, and beats.

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’s daily drive-time Hip Hop Talk Show, featuring hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson, who hit the air every day at 4 pm offering news, views, breaks, and beats.
KPFA’s daily drive-time Hip Hop Talk Show, featuring hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson, who hit the air every day at 4 pm offering news, views, breaks, and beats.
Davey D speaks with friends of Wesley Burton, Sandra Lemus, Dev Ross and Chris Riggins— Fund to help Wesley’s family
KPFA’s daily drive-time Hip Hop Talk Show, featuring hosts Davey D and Anita Johnson, who hit the air every day at 4 pm offering news, views, breaks, and beats.
On today’s program we continue with our conversation with Big Gipp ¼ of the hip hop group Goodie Mob. HKR contributor Thandisizwe Chimurenga explores the meaning of an ally and lastly Poor News Network examines economic genocide in communities of color.
We speak with Isis Brantley, the Institute of Ancestral Braiding and founder of the Naturally Isis Natural Hair Parade about her battle against government regulation to braid hair in the state of Texas. Later we speak Atlanta based recording artist Big Gipp and ¼ of Goodie Mob about his upcoming album and the lack of … Continued
On today’s program we cover various actions against Police Brutality in the Bay Area and New York. We start with a look at UC Berkeley protests and then we speak with Carmen Perez, the march director for the Justice League about the 9-Day March From New York To D.C. to end police brutality. Our last … Continued
We speak with Kevin Powell the head of BK Nation about the latest wave of police terrorism.
We speak with the son of Mumia Abu-Jamal about the health of his father, hip-hop artist Zumbi of ZionI stops by to discuss HipHop and activism and lastly we chop it up with artist Chamuco Cortez about La Movida Lives event at Eastside Arts Alliance this weekend.
We speak with Erica Garner about the police involved murder of her father, Eric Garner and the case in North Charleston where a white police officer faces murder charges after his fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man, Walter Scott was caught on video. And Poor News Network examines economic terrorism in urban communities. 5pm … Continued