Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio

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.

Hard Knock Radio

Hard Knock Radio – March 9, 2005

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Alice Wu on her new film Saving Face which opens the 23rd annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival; Kurt Rosenwinkel on his new cd Deep Song.

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Hard Knock Radio – March 8, 2005

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Celebrating International Women’s Day with hip hop author and scholar Trisha Rose and highlights from some of the women’s performances at this year’s Youth Speaks Poetry Slam.

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Hard Knock Radio – March 4, 2005

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Mumia Abu Jamal on Social Security; Davey D explores the history of Mix Tapes; and Fifth Element, an artists’ collective dedicated to finding women’s voices in hip-hop.

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Hard Knock Radio – March 3, 2005

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Materializing Icons; and Davey D speaks with local award-winning filmmaker Joslyn Rose about the DVD release of her film Sounds of Spirit., which focuses on the creative and spiritual aspects of hiphop culture.

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Hard Knock Radio – March 1, 2005

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Dr. Cornel West pays tribute to Oscar winner Jamie Foxx; A report back from a protest against New York’s Hot 97; Anita Johnson reports from the Oakland Unified School District administrative building where there is a planned action today.

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Hard Knock Radio – February 24, 2005

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Davey D speaks with industry insider Lisa Fager of IndustryEars.com about ongoing campaigns to hold urban radio executives accountable to the hip hop community for the music that they play; and Pooja Makhijani, author of Under Her Skin : How Girls Experience Race in America.