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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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Hard Knock Radio: Jennifer L. Pozner on Censorship,...

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2025/09/19

In the wake of the campus-rally killing of Charlie Kirk—and the immediate media sanctification that followed—Hard Knock Radio host Davey D sat down with media critic and author Jennifer L. Pozner to connect the dots between shock headlines, corporate deals, and a chilling new phase of state pressure on speech. The conversation opened with Davey D framing the moment: public grief and outrage quickly morphed into a climate where educators, journalists, and comedians faced swift punishment for even

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Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. on Chicago, Propaganda, and...

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2025/09/18

ChairmanFredHampton Jr. on Chicago, Propaganda, and Building Real CoalitionsOn Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D checks in withChairmanFredHampton Jr. of the Black Panther Party Cubs to unpack the fast-moving situation in Chicago and the wider national climate. From the talk of deploying the National Guard to the shifting justifications around crime and immigration, Hampton Jr. argues were living through reactionary times where policy and headlines move a mile a minute”and where propaganda often

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Alec Karakatsanis on Copaganda: How Police and the...

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2025/09/17

In this timely episode, Davey D speaks with civil rights attorney and author Alec Karakatsanis about his new book, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. Alec unpacks how police departments deploy strategic storytelling and cultivate media partnerships to shape public perception of crime, fuel fear-driven narratives, and justify ever-expanding police budgets. The conversation opens with Alec defining “copaganda” and dissecting how misleading claims—like the idea that shoplifting

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59:58

Build and Fight Formula for Self-Defense PT.2

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2025/09/16

Today on Hard Knock Radio we bring you a special edition of Rootwork on KPFK, Thandi Chimurenga of Black Liberation Media sat down with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson to discuss bold strategies for grassroots survival and resistance. Part of the ongoing Build and Fight Formula series, their conversation explored the urgency of self-defense in the face of rising authoritarianism. Build and Fight Formula 7 for Self-Defense Akuno urged listeners to think critically about recent executive actions

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Artificial Intelligence

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2025/09/15

On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with X. Eyee, one of todays leading voices in artificial intelligence ethics, policy, and responsible tech. With a career that spans Microsoft, Google, the U.S. Department of Defense, and now CEO of consulting firm Malo Santo, X. Eyee has seen AI from every angle”and theyve made it their mission to break the jargon down for everyday people. AI: Superhero and Supervillain X. Eyee lays it out clearly: artificial intelligence is both saving

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Hard Knock Radio – September 12, 2025

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2025/09/12

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 – September 12, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Samora Pinderhughes on Craft, Abolition, and the...

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2025/09/11

Host Davey D opens with “Am I Human?” and frames Samora Pinderhughes as a Bay-raised, Juilliard-trained composer/pianist/vocalist who blends jazz, R&B, and movement work. Samora embraces that lineage—crediting his parents’ community praxis—and talks frankly about maintaining integrity in an industry that rewards spectacle and “Black dysfunction.” The antidote, for him, is purpose and craft.On abolition, Samora widens the lens: prisons, policing, ICE, detention, border regimes, environmental racism,

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Jelani Cobb’s History Lesson for Right Now

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2025/09/10

On Hard Knock Radio, I sat down with Jelani Cobb—dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, and a thinker rooted in Hip Hop’s habit of connecting dots across time. We talked about his new book, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here (2012–2025). I called it “a book of books” on air for a reason: Cobb isn’t chasing hot takes; he’s building a historical map for a decade that feels like whiplash.Cobb traces the spark back to his first New

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300,000 Black Women Pushed Out of the U.S. Labor Force

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2025/09/09

Host Davey D convenes SEIU 1021 organizer Jennifer Esteen and Women’s Economic Agenda Project director Ethel Long-Scott to unpack a seismic—and largely ignored—economic gut punch: 300,000 Black women cut from the federal workforce in the first half of 2025. Both guests frame the layoffs as part of a broader, deliberate restructuring—legal, political, and technological—that targets the very people who’ve long been the backbone of democracy and day-to-day governance.Long-Scott situates the moment

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Hard Knock Radio – September 8, 2025

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2025/09/08

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 – September 8, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Prosthetics for Palestine: Culture as Care, Art as...

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2025/09/05

Host Davey D checks in with producer Tarik “Eccentric” Kazaleh and singer-organizer Naima Shalhoub about Gaza’s ongoing crisis, the grassroots effort Prosthetics for Palestine, their instrumental collective Shadow Band, and a benefit show this Sunday in Danville. Tarik explains Prosthetics for Palestine began as a family idea and, over the past year, has grown into a 30-plus person, grassroots project now operating as a campaign with Physicians for Palestine. With mass displacement and new

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DC Under Occupation: Netfa Freeman on Policing,...

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2025/09/04

Davey D taps Netfa Freeman of Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the Black Alliance for Peace to unpack what’s really happening in Washington, D.C. Freeman says the story isn’t a sudden “DC takeover” but an intensification of long-running policies: federal agents augmenting MPD, a crime narrative used to justify containment, and a local government—under Mayor Muriel Bowser—collaborating rather than resisting. He frames it as colonial occupation at home: an “internal colony” dynamic that

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Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement

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2025/09/03

Host Davey D sits down with psychiatrist and author Dr. Terry A. Kupers to dig into the realities—and rising urgency—of ending solitary confinement in 2025. Kupers defines solitary plainly: 22+ hours a day locked alone in a cell, meals through a slot, minimal caged “yard” time, and almost no human contact—“like being locked in your bathroom 24 hours a day.” He traces the practice from early Quaker experiments in “penitence” to its modern resurgence amid overcrowding, longer sentences, and punitive

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Its Not You, Its Capitalism: Malaika Jabali Breaks...

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2025/09/02

On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with lawyer, journalist, and author Malaika Jabali to unpack her new bookIts Not You, Its Capitalism. Drawing on her legal background and years of political reporting,Jabalichallenges the myths surrounding capitalism and reframes our relationship to money, struggle, and systemic inequality.Jabali explains that the idea for the book emerged during the pandemic, when people internalized their economic hardship as personal failure rather than

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The State of Workers’ Rights

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2025/09/01

On today’s show, we look at the state of workers’ rights in 2025 with Jennifer Esteen, a nurse and SEIU labor leader. Esteen reflects on the shifting landscape of labor rights in the U.S. and beyond—from new protections for workers in places like California, to the growing attacks on unions and collective bargaining nationwide. We talk about the challenges facing frontline workers, including unsafe conditions, wage theft, and employer retaliation, and highlight the new waves of organizing happening

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Hard Knock Radio – August 29, 2025

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2025/08/29

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 – August 29, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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Hurricane Katrina 20 Years Later

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2025/08/28

On today’s show, we mark the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with journalist and organizer Jordan Flaherty.Flaherty, who has reported extensively from New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast, reflects on the storm’s devastating impact and the decades-long struggle for recovery and justice that followed. We look at how communities—especially Black, working-class, and immigrant residents—fought to survive displacement, systemic neglect, and the privatization of public resources in the

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Build and Fight Formula 7 for Self-Defense

KPFA - Hard Knock Radio ·

2025/08/27

Today on Hard Knock Radio we bring you a special edition of Rootwork on KPFK, Thandi Chimurenga of Black Liberation Media sat down with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson to discuss bold strategies for grassroots survival and resistance. Part of the ongoing Build and Fight Formula series, their conversation explored the urgency of self-defense in the face of rising authoritarianism.Akuno urged listeners to think critically about recent executive actions taken by President Trump—moves that critics

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Fighting for Community: Boxing, Collective Care, and...

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2025/08/26

On Hard Knock Radio, Davey D sat down with Oakland boxing coach and community leader Dalia “La Pantera” Gomez, known affectionately as Coach G. The conversation highlighted her grassroots boxing and wellness program at San Antonio Park, which has become a vital hub for young people and families.Coach G reflected on her upbringing in Oxnard, where parks provided sanctuary and shaped her love for sports. That experience inspired her to keep her program outdoors, even when kids asked about moving into

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Hard Knock Radio – August 25, 2025

KPFA - Hard Knock Radio ·

2025/08/25

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 – August 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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