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.

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America’s Education Plan

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Today we speak with David Stovall Ph.D about education, HKR commentator Thandisizwe Chimurenga provides us with a perspective and young people and the cosmetic industry.

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The Trans Pacific Partnership Deal

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We discuss the Trans Pacific Partnership deal with Arnie Saiki the coordinator for Moana Nui action alliance and has been involved with Pacific issues concerning trade and militarization. We also look at the trinity of the major three as it exist are the TPP/TTIP and TISA, the TiSA is the largest component of the United … Continued

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Ayotzinapa 43 and I Love Being Black

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Ayotzinapa 43: It s been nine months since police attacked five busloads of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in Iguala, Mexico. They on their way home from protesting a conference on education reforms held by the mayor s wife when police attacked and detained dozens of people. 43 students went missing after the … Continued

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Interview with Edwidge Danticat

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We talk with acclaimed Haitian-American novelist, Edwidge Danticat, about her latest book Claire of the Sea Light, as well as the ethnic purging currently taking place in the Dominican Republic.  

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Greg Tate, The Godfather Of Hip-Hop Writing

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On today’s program we hear a discussion recorded at Stanford University featuring Greg Tate, the Godfather of Hip-Hop writing. In his three decades of writing on Black artists—musical, visual, literary and more—Greg Tate influenced a generation of arts and cultural critics. He has been called “the godfather of hip-hop journalism,” and is widely regarded as … Continued

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Interview with Nelson George, author, columnist and culture critic.

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We speak with  author, music and culture critic Nelson George. And later we speak with Rick “Freeway” Ross about his legal battles to over the use of his name. About Nelson George: He is an author, filmmaker, television producer, and critic with a long career in analyzing and presenting the diverse elements of African-American culture. … Continued