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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 – October 8, 2004

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Wild Poppies. A poetry jam across prison walls: A new CD from the Freedom Archives: Poets and musicians honor poet and political prisoner Marilyn Buck; Jazz legend John Scofield.


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Hard Knock Radio – October 7, 2004

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Marie Daulne, the Zaire-born visionary behind Zap Mama.


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Hard Knock Radio – October 6, 2004

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Arundhati Roy and Boots Riley.


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Hard Knock Radio – October 5, 2004

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The best of Hard Knock Radio reporting from the streets of America, with Davey D.


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Hard Knock Radio – October 4, 2004

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Mumia Abu Jamal: Alawi Tour Sponsored by the C.I.A.; Davey D reports back from Miami on Ralph Nader, speaks with Chuck D, and the Slam Champion who won the Slam Bush poetry slam finals in Miami.


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Hard Knock Radio – October 1, 2004

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The 4th Annual Youth Speaks Living Word Festival; Slamming Bush in Miami: The National Poetry Slam


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Hard Knock Radio – September 30, 2004

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Folks from the Independence Collective; Davy D talks with reality rap legend MC Eight about the city of Compton, Gangsta music, and the “politricks” of the entertainment business.


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Hard Knock Radio – September 29, 2004

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Linda Carson of Roll Back the Rents about proposed evictions in the city of Alameda; Discussing the Black Holocaust with author and scholor Dr. Firpo W. Carr.


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Hard Knock Radio – September 28, 2004

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Mumia Abu Jamal on U.S. Drug Policy; Cinemayaat: The 8th Annual Arab Film Festival – www.aff.org; Hip Hop artist Trey Hartson.


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Hard Knock Radio – September 27, 2004

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A discussion about voter empowerment with Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the San Francisco Bayview Newspaper, and Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.


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