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KPFA - Hard Knock Radio

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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Remembering D’Angelo with Prof. Mark Anthony Neal

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2025/10/24

Hard Knock Radio opened on a somber note as host Davey D reflected on the passing of D’Angelo, coming just months after the loss of his former partner Angie Stone. To make sense of the moment and the legacy, Duke University scholar Mark Anthony Neal joined the show to map D’Angelo’s cultural footprint—far beyond the “sex symbol” frame that followed the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. Neal places D’Angelo squarely in the lineage of serious Black musicianship: a church-trained

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Literacy, Equity, and Showing Up: Ty-Licia Hooker on...

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2025/10/23

In this Hard Knock Radio conversation, host Davey D sits down with educator and organizer Ty-Licia Hooker, executive director of The Children’s Education Project, to unpack Oakland’s literacy crisis and what it will take to fix it. Hooker traces the problem across generations—third-generation OUSD herself—recalling a sixth-grade class told they were “illiterate” and sent back to phonics. Today, she says, kindergarteners are expected to read complete sentences by year’s end; too many aren’t close,

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Bobby Seale and the History of the Black Panther Party

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2025/10/22

Today on the show, we honor the revolutionary legacy of Bobby Seale — cofounder of the Black Panther Party — as the City of Oakland marks his 89th birthday with an official proclamation of “Bobby Seale Day” and a commemorative street renaming. We spoke with Bobby Seale about the history and legacy of the Panthers and his relationship with Huey P. Newton.Seale, born in Liberty, Texas, moved with his family to the Bay Area as a child, first settling in Albany’s Codornices Village before making North

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Know Your Rights in a Shifting America: Lessons from...

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2025/10/21

Hard Knock Radio brought together two Bay Area organizers working at the intersection of immigration defense and civil liberties: Eric from the Friends of La Peña Immigrant Rights Committee, and Marisa Almor of East Bay Sanctuary Covenant. The conversation cut through the noise and focused on how people can protect themselves—and each other—amid rising repression. The moment we’re in Listeners are seeing lines blur fast. Undocumented neighbors are targeted. Dissent is branded as “Antifa.” Eric

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Hard Knock Radio – October 20, 2025

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2025/10/20

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. The post Hard Knock Radio – October 20, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Love Life Week: Turning Loss into Civic Love and Poor...

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2025/10/17

On Hard Knock Radio, Donald Lacy joined host Davey D to launch Love Life Week, a Bay Area tradition born from the life and legacy of his daughter LoEshe Adama Lacy—Igbo for “love life.” Lacy recounted how a 16-year-old LoEshe pushed to “start a movement” after a friend’s murder in 1997. Following LoEshe’s own killing on October 20, 1997, Lacy and community allies formalized that vision into the Love Life Foundation (first Love Life Week in 1998), dedicated to healing, youth leadership, and community

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“Unite or Perish”: Minister Abdul Sabur Muhammad on...

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2025/10/16

Davey D sits down with Minister Abdul Sabur Muhammad (formerly known as Minister Keith) to revisit the 30th anniversary of the Million Man March and to connect its spirit to today’s political climate. The conversation recalls the organizing muscle that built October 16, 1995—and asks what it means to sustain that energy now.Why the call mattered Muhammad situates the mid-1990s as a period when Black men were cast as “public enemy number one,” with policy and policing following those narratives. He

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A.D. Carson on Hip-Hop, Power, and “Being Dope”

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2025/10/15

On this edition of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D speaks with Professor A.D. Carson of the University of Virginia — a scholar, artist, and emcee whose academic work flips the script on what scholarship can sound like. Carson first gained national attention when his doctoral dissertation took the form of a 34-track rap album, Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolution. Now he returns with a new book, Being Dope: Hip Hop in Theory Through Mixtape Memoir — a deep meditation on art,

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From Ferguson to Now: Tef Poe on Power, Policing, and...

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2025/10/14

Davey opens by flagging a broader cultural chill: institutions soft-pedaling Black history (e.g., museum text that erases “slavery”) and artists being penalized for political speech. That lands close to home with news out of St. Louis: after releasing two political tracks during a heated mayoral race, Tef Poe is suddenly the target of a law-enforcement “investigation”—not for violent lyrics, he stresses, but for naming names and challenging power. Tef lays out his lineage of “diss records for

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Hard Knock Radio – October 13, 2025

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2025/10/13

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. The post Hard Knock Radio – October 13, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Hard Knock Radio – October 10, 2025

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2025/10/10

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.The post Hard Knock Radio – October 10, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Hard Knock Radio – October 9, 2025

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2025/10/09

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. The post Hard Knock Radio – October 9, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Hard Knock Radio – October 8, 2025

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2025/10/08

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. The post Hard Knock Radio – October 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Fund Drive Special: Kali Akuno

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2025/10/07

Davey D opens by clocking a surge of disinformation that treats facts and political education as disposable—amplified by anonymous influencers and even AI personas attacking iconic figures like Assata Shakur and the Panthers. Akuno traces this back to well-funded, right-wing astroturfing that targeted Black and Latino audiences—citing ADOS/FBA as examples—and leveraged platform algorithms that trap users in “information cul-de-sacs.” He points to the rise of deepfakes and a broader program to

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Fund Drive Special: Inside the Empire of AI: Karen...

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2025/10/06

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with award-winning tech journalist Karen Hao to unpack her book Empires of AI—a sweeping critique of how today’s AI boom concentrates power while eroding public agency. Hao traces OpenAI’s arc from a purportedly altruistic nonprofit to a profit-driven juggernaut shaped by the egos and ambitions of its founders. She argues that to evaluate tools like ChatGPT, we can’t stop at personal convenience; we have to reckon with the hidden inputs—mass data scraping

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Fund Drive Special: “Ancestors” and Chicago Raids

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2025/10/03

On this Hard Knock Radio episode, Davey D opens with “Ancestors” by guest Miko Marks, framing her long road to wider recognition as audiences rediscover Southern Soul, Americana, and country through mainstream moments—from Beyoncé’s country pivot to Ryan Coogler’s recent work. Marks traces her journey from a 2005 traditional country debut to an expansive roots blend—blues, gospel, folk, jazz—after shedding industry boxes that once demanded a narrow look and sound. She recalls being one of only a few

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Fund Drive Special: The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel...

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2025/10/02

Today on Hard Knock Radio, we’re reflecting on that legacy and the new book The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity.This collection is not just history — it’s a blueprint, urgent and relevant in today’s political climate. And to help us bring this story to life, we’re joined by Mrs. Lisa Williams, the daughter-in-law of Robert and Mabel Williams. Robert and Mabel Williams in their own words Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North

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Fund Drive Special: Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and...

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2025/10/01

Jeff Chang joins Hard Knock Radio to break down his new book, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. We start with a truth many of us in Black and Hip-Hop communities feel instinctively: Bruce isn’t just “an Asian hero,” he’s a global underdog icon—postered up next to Ali and Marley, sampled and name-checked in rap, and embraced across barrios and blocks. During the pandemic, Jeff watched Bruce’s image reappear on Chinatown walls as a signal of pride, resilience, and a call

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Fund Drive Special: Leonard Peltier Speaks

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2025/09/30

Leonard Peltier joins Hard Knock Radio from house arrest on Turtle Mountain, grateful to be home yet blunt about the political moment. He warns of rising fascism, culture-war censorship, and the real danger of global conflict, arguing that only broad, cross-racial unity can blunt the slide. While skeptical of both parties, he urges strategic voting and mass participation to defend what freedom remains. Asked about turning to Indigenous philosophies, Peltier says we can’t “go back,” but we can move

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Anti-Fascism in Portland: A Conversation with Luis...

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2025/09/29

When the streets of Portland lit up between 2016 and 2020, the world saw nightly battles between protesters, far-right groups, and federal officers. But for longtime organizer and writer Luis Enrique Marquez, those years were less about spectacle and more about community defense. His new book, Anti-Fascist: A Memoir of the Portland Uprising, documents the lessons, contradictions, and solidarity that defined the era. On Hard Knock Radio, Marquez sat down with Davey D to break down what went down in

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