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

In Conversation with Joan Morgan

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Twenty years after the album’s release, Morgan (author of the critical feminist work When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost) looks back on Hill’s impact on pop culture in She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.   

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Presidential Pardons and Net Neutrality

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we speak with Civil Rights attorney Eva Patterson about Paul Manafort, Presidential pardons and Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh and why he must be stopped. Later, we speak with Ernesto Falcon from EFF about Net Neutrality and Police surveillance via new technology

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A Poisoned City: Flint Water Crisis and Cuba: The Cookbook

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we speak with rewire journalist Auditi Guha about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Later Julieta Kusnir speaks with author Imogene Tondre about her book, Cuba: The Cookbook. A unique compilation of authentic home-cooking recipes from Cuba, reflecting the island’s remarkable culinary diversity. State Water Filters Prove Lacking in Flint, a City ‘Full of … Continued

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Art and Culture

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we present a discussion on the role of art and culture in the current political moment moderated by Davey D. The discussion featured Akonadi Foundations 2018 commissioned artist, Joshua Mays, and past poster contributors Janine Macbeth and Robert Trujillo. Each commissioned artists participated in the Racial Justice Poster Project, a project that lifts up arts … Continued