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.
Davey speaks with Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson about new laws being passed in the state of Mississippi. On Feb. 7, the Mississippi State House approved House Bill 1020, a bill that would create a new, unelected court system in the state capital of Jackson.
Davey speaks with Mekko Chebon Kernell. Guest: The Rev. Kernell, an ordained Elder in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, is formerly the executive secretary of Native American and Indigenous Ministries for the denominations General Board of Global Ministries. In this role, he has worked with the World Council of Churches, the United Nations Permanent Forum … Continued
Davey D explores the Boston’s influence on the hip-hop sound with historian Dart Adams. Guest: Dart Adams is a music journalist, historian, lecturer, independent A&R, consultant and a correspondent/on camera interviewer for NE Hip Hop from Boston, MA. He’s mostly known for his blogs Poisonous Paragraphs, Bastard Swordsman & Producers I Know as well as … Continued
Thenmozhi Soundararajan ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit rights activist based in the United States of America. She is also a transmedia storyteller, songwriter, hip hop musician and technologist. She has been actively campaigning for the rights of the marginalized … Continued
We speak with bestselling author and national political commentator Steve Phillips about his latest book, How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good.
