
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.
Police in Uvalde School Shooting Criticized Due to Poor Response and Poor News Network
We speak with Professor Jose Villarreal of Brown Berets about the police’s response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Professor Villarreal also talks about the planned action to protest how the mass shooting was handled by police and to demand the resignation of the chief of police. Later Poor News Network examines America’s war … Continued
We speak with Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD about his new book What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing.
Racist Terrorism in Buffalo: How the Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Puts the Nation at Risk with Tim Wise
In this presentation, anti-racist educator Tim Wise examines how overt racism has increasingly penetrated American political discourse and has contributed to terrorist violence, most recently in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, El Paso and Charleston. Having begun his career in the campaigns to defeat Neo-Nazi David Duke in his runs for political office, Wise has been a witness to a 30-year process of … Continued
Hard Knock Radio – May 30, 2022
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.
Racist Terrorism in Buffalo: How the Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Puts the Nation at Risk with Tim Wise
In this presentation, anti-racist educator Tim Wise examines how overt racism has increasingly penetrated American political discourse and has contributed to terrorist violence, most recently in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, El Paso and Charleston. Having begun his career in the campaigns to defeat Neo-Nazi David Duke in his runs for political office, Wise has been a witness to a 30-year process of … Continued
Fund Drive Special: Requiem for the American Dream
Requiem for the American Dream Jared Scott, Kelly Nyks, Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchison In Requiem for the American Dream, renowned intellectual figure Noam Chomsky deliberates on the defining characteristics of our time—the colossal concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few and fewer, with the rise of a rapacious individualism and complete collapse of class consciousness. … Continued
In Conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy
Dr. Joy DeGruy, the author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome process the Texas, and New York shootings the latest examples of targeted racial violence in America. She explored race, the rise of violence, and the loss of humanity.
Capitalism
We present the six-part docu-series Capitalism.
Hard Knock Radio – May 23, 2022
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.

