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.
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
On today’s program we speak with Phillip Agnew, the Executive Director of Dream Defenders about two Florida state prison guards and a former corrections employee accused of KKK ties and plotting to kill a black inmate. As well as four Fort Lauderdale Police officers exchange of racist text messages between themselves. In the later half … Continued
On today’s program we speak with Eddy Zheng, a high-profile San Francisco Chinatown activist who was among 83 people granted a full pardon Sunday by Gov. Jerry Brown. Eddy Zheng spent 19 years in prison for kidnapping and robbery.
We speak with Dorsey Nunn from the organization Legal Services w/ Children about Apple’s recent decision to not hire ex-felons. Later on in the show we talk to Chicago activists about the tomorrow’s historical run off election. Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director, has over thirty-five years experience working on prison related issues.
We speak with conservative activist Shelley Winters about the Atlanta public school cheating scandal. And later we revisit the police involved murder of Dontre Hamilton, a black man, shot 14 times by Christopher Manney, a white police officer in Milwaukee.
We speak with Professor Wright about President Obama “unpromise,” police terrorism and social movement building. We check in with Linda Grant about the pending threat to Afrika Town Community Garden and we speak with filmmaker featured at this years Oakland International Film Festival. Professor Tina Bell Wright is a media strategist and historian who has … Continued
