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.
Political Commentator Mumia Abu Jamal on "America’s Martin, & Martin’s America". Today on the show Davey D speaks with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa about racial tension between Black & Brown people. Later in the show Wyland speaks with Om hip-hop recording artists Zeph & Azeem who are doing a show tonight along with Oh-No … Continued
Anita Johnson speaks with the Executive Producer, Star and Director of the new Documentary "The Business of Being Born," which opens up tomorrow in Bay Area Theatres. Hard Knock Co-respondent Greg Bridges speaks with some folks from Youth Speaks about 2 upcoming events you don’t want to miss out on.
We reconize today, January 15th, as the 79th birthday of Dr. Matin Luther King Jr. Today we bring you a highlight from one of his classic speeches. Also today we brings you day one of a two day special as Davey D sits down with Seargent Ron Starworth aka the original Hip-Hop Cop.
Gregg Bridges speaks with H.N.I.C. Music recording artist Howard Wiley along with Vocalist Faye Carol about the new CD "The Angola Project" and their show tonight at Yoshi’s.
Davey D comes to us from Brooklyn at a rally for the case of three young Puerto Rican activists and artists ordered to appear before a Brooklyn federal grand jury. Davey D speaks with some of the people in attendance at the rally including Immortal Technique, Lah Tere of Rebel Diaz and Pop Master Fable … Continued
Anita Johnson speaks with the co-editor of Kenya’s Pan-Bazuku news about 2007 elections in Kenya and the civil unrest that followed. Later in the show Weyland speaks with Indie Soul Artist Rashaan Patterson about his latest album "Wine & Spirits".
We conclude our New Hampshire coverage with interviews we were unable to bring you in the past two days, including Senator Clinton’s New Hampshire adviser Doug Hataway. The Chairman for the Democratic Party Raymond Buckley & Loutenent Governor of Maryland Michael Steele. Later in the show Anita Johnson gives us an update on the San … Continued
Anita Johnsons speaks with our own Davey D who is still in New Hampshire covering the 2008 primaries, he breaks down today’s events. Today Davey D speaks with controversial republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and The Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Veragosa. Later in the show Weyland speaks with Marjane Satrapi who’s graphic novel Persepolis … Continued
Davey D comes to us from New Hampshire on the eve of the 2008 primary elections in New Hampshire. Today we’ll hear from foreign policy advisor Susan Rice, Presidential Hopeful Dennis Kucinich along with his wife Elizabeth, former congressman Barry Goldwater Jr and Actor Viggo Mortenson.
