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

Slave: A Human Trafficking Survivor Finds Life

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We speak with Jabali Smith, the author of Slave: A Human Trafficking Survivor Finds Life. Jabali Smith was a 6-yr-old in Berkeley, California when he was trafficked along with his sister over the border into Mexico and held captive by a messianic doomsday sex cult. SLAVE courageously and boldly chronicles his journey as a child … Continued

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Black Maternal Mortality and Poor News Network

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we speak with Dr. Joia Crear-Perry about Maternal Health risk for Black women. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor. Dr. Joia Crear-Perry is the Founder and president of the National Birth Equity Collaborative,  and the author of “Race Isn’t a Risk Factor in Maternal Health. Racism Is.” Dr. Crear-Perry currently serves on the … Continued

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Slavery In Libya and Lizz Wright

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We speak with Meron Estefanos about human trafficking and slavery in Libya. And later we speak with singer Lizz Wright about her 5th studio album, Freedom & Surrender. Wright has re-emerged, after a long hiatus, with a renewed creative spark and a new kind of perspective that only a lived life can provide.

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Waffle House Massacre

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We speak with Tondra, she lived next door to the man who killed the people at the Waffle House. She gives us some insight as to what happened.