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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.
Hard Knock Radio opens with Jamal Ibn Mumia, son of Mumia Abu-Jamal, reporting back from journalism conferences in Havana and recent stops on the Mumia Freedom Tour. He describes global concern over U.S. imperial reach and the surprise among delegates that political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal and Imam Jamil Al-Amin remain incarcerated. Jamal praises Cuban … Continued
Here’s a clear look at the conversation between Hard Knock Radio host Davey D and Sophi Wilmore, co director of Feed Black Futures, about the fallout from threatened SNAP cuts and what communities can do about it. The discussion opens with breaking context. A federal judge has ordered the administration to keep SNAP funded during … Continued
Hard Knock Radio sat down with Seattle based organizer Courtney Scott to unpack a season of layoffs and a grinding federal shutdown. Davey opened with the scope. Amazon and UPS are shedding tens of thousands. Tech and media giants are cutting deep. Hundreds of thousands of Black women in federal jobs have already been pushed … Continued
Davey D opens with the stakes in Oakland and beyond. Cities are floating policies that make it easier to disappear unhoused people, often by criminalizing basic survival. He notes how public narratives erase who is actually living outside in Oakland. Many are older Black residents. That reality sits in tension with Black leaders invoking civil … Continued
Host Davey D sat down with journalist Rasheed Shabazz of Oakland Voices to unpack a tense week in the Bay. Rumors of federal agents and possible troop deployments gave way to a confirmed staging at Coast Guard Island between Oakland and Alameda. Community members quickly mobilized, forming a blockade and confronting a heavy show of … Continued
In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. Akinyele Umoja joins us to discuss The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. Umoja, a scholar of African American history and co-editor of the memoirs, explores the legacy of Robert and Mabel Williams”radical Black freedom fighters who advocated for armed … Continued
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, hosted by Davey D and Anita Johnson.
Hard Knock Radio opened on a somber note as host Davey D reflected on the passing of D’Angelo, coming just months after the loss of his former partner Angie Stone. To make sense of the moment and the legacy, Duke University scholar Mark Anthony Neal joined the show to map D’Angelo’s cultural footprint—far beyond the “sex symbol” … Continued
In this Hard Knock Radio conversation, host Davey D sits down with educator and organizer Ty-Licia Hooker, executive director of The Children’s Education Project, to unpack Oakland’s literacy crisis and what it will take to fix it. Hooker traces the problem across generations—third-generation OUSD herself—recalling a sixth-grade class told they were “illiterate” and sent back to phonics. … Continued
Today on the show, we honor the revolutionary legacy of Bobby Seale — cofounder of the Black Panther Party — as the City of Oakland marks his 89th birthday with an official proclamation of “Bobby Seale Day” and a commemorative street renaming. We spoke with Bobby Seale about the history and legacy of the Panthers … Continued
