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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.
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with Bay Area author Adam Mansbach to discuss his new book, Go the F to College, the sequel to his bestselling parenting satire Go the F to Sleep. Mansbach, known for books like Angry Black White Boy, The Golem of Brooklyn, Rage Is Back, and his screenplay for the Netflix film Barry, … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with longtime organizer and Pan-Africanist Netfa Freeman about reports that the Trump administration pressured Zambia to exchange mineral rights for continued U.S. health aid, including support for HIV and AIDS programs. Freeman, who works with the Black Alliance for Peace and WPFW in Washington, D.C., said the … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with critical media literacy scholar and author Nolan Higdon about his new book, MAG Academy, a sharp examination of the long running assault on higher education. Higdon argued that the current attacks on universities did not begin with Donald Trump. Instead, he traced the crisis back decades to … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with community activist and journalist Jesse Strauss and longtime civil rights attorney Walter Riley to discuss their new book, Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley. The conversation explored Riley’s decades of movement work, the importance of preserving radical history, and the lessons today’s organizers … Continued
Hard Knock Radio: Voting Rights Under Attack and the Fight Ahead (HKR-05-04-26) On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D brings together two powerful voices, Rukia Lumumba of the Movement for Black Lives and Dr. James Taylor, political scientist, to unpack the far-reaching impact of the Supreme Court’s decision weakening the Voting Rights … Continued
On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D brings together two seasoned artist organizers, Gonzalo “G1” of Rebel Diaz and Mic Crenshaw, for a timely conversation on the meaning of May Day and the political terrain shaping today’s struggles. Framed by music that has long served as a soundtrack for resistance, the discussion … Continued
Davey D of Hard Knock Radio spoke with Mohamed Shehk of AROC, the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, about May Day actions, ICE, immigrant detention, and the growing need for multiracial solidarity. Shehk began by explaining that AROC provides legal services, community support, advocacy, and organizing for Arab and Muslim communities in the Bay Area. He stressed … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with housing advocate Evangeline Byars of the People’s Coalition to Stop Deed Theft for a sobering conversation about how Black families, especially elders, are being stripped of homes and generational wealth through a web of legal manipulation, fraud, and institutional neglect. Byars made clear that deed … Continued
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with acclaimed poet, recording artist, organizer and activist Aja Monet for a wide ranging conversation about poetry, Hip Hop, Black expression and her new album The Color of Rain. The conversation opened with Davey D reflecting on Monet’s song “Black Joy,” joking that her poems kept … Continued
(HKR-04-27-26):On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D spoke with writer, social commentator and conflict mediator Juno Aventurine about identity politics, cancel culture and the tensions showing up in contemporary leftist spaces. Aventurine began by distinguishing identity politics from what she calls leftist identitarianism. She noted that identity politics grew out of the Combahee River Collective, … Continued
