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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.
Today on Hard Knock Radio, we’re reflecting on that legacy and the new book The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. This collection is not just history — it’s a blueprint, urgent and relevant in today’s political climate. And to help us bring this story to life, … Continued
Jeff Chang joins Hard Knock Radio to break down his new book, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. We start with a truth many of us in Black and Hip-Hop communities feel instinctively: Bruce isn’t just “an Asian hero,” he’s a global underdog icon—postered up next to Ali and Marley, sampled and name-checked … Continued
Leonard Peltier joins Hard Knock Radio from house arrest on Turtle Mountain, grateful to be home yet blunt about the political moment. He warns of rising fascism, culture-war censorship, and the real danger of global conflict, arguing that only broad, cross-racial unity can blunt the slide. While skeptical of both parties, he urges strategic voting … Continued
When the streets of Portland lit up between 2016 and 2020, the world saw nightly battles between protesters, far-right groups, and federal officers. But for longtime organizer and writer Luis Enrique Marquez, those years were less about spectacle and more about community defense. His new book, Anti-Fascist: A Memoir of the Portland Uprising, documents the lessons, contradictions, and … 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.
On Hard Knock Radio, host Dave “Davey D” Cook sat down with Oakland-raised investigator and former CPRA executive director Mac Muir, co-author (with Greg Finch) of Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing. The conversation moves from New York’s entrenched resistance to oversight to Oakland’s imperfect but real gains, and lands on practical reforms that … 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 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.
In the wake of the campus-rally killing of Charlie Kirk—and the immediate media sanctification that followed—Hard Knock Radio host Davey D sat down with media critic and author Jennifer L. Pozner to connect the dots between shock headlines, corporate deals, and a chilling new phase of state pressure on speech. The conversation opened with Davey D framing … Continued
