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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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59:58

The Alabama Solution and Poor News Network

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2025/11/07

Here’s what went down on Hard Knock Radio when we brought George Galvis, Dorsey Nunn, and Minister King X to the mic. We opened with the upcoming Oakland screening of The Alabama Solution, a searing documentary built with clandestine footage shot by people inside. George called it the most powerful prison expose he has seen, precisely because it lets those behind the walls tell the story themselves. He urged folks to pull up to Grand Lake Theater on Wednesday, November 12 at 6 pm. Tickets are free

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In Conversation with Dr. Melina Abdullah and Kali Akuno

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2025/11/06

Hard Knock Radio dug into the day after the election with Professor Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter Grassroots and Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson. We opened with a sober check on the victory talk. Akuno warned that establishment power will not sit still. He expects two immediate counter moves in New York. First, a police strike to box in a Mamdani administration and set limits. Second, a capital strike that chokes resources and punishes the base. He pointed to Jackson, Mississippi,

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59:58

A Breakdown of November 4th Election Outcome

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2025/11/05

On Hard Knock Radio, Davey D sat down with Pastor Mike McBride of Live Free and former New York City Councilmember Charles Barron to unpack a dramatic election night and the work ahead. Davey opened with big headlines from Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, the passage of Prop 50, and Mondami’s win in New York, then flagged Governor Gavin Newsom’s sober warning about National Guard and Border Patrol presence at polling places as a stress test for the future.Barron urged celebration with

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59:58

From Havana to Jamaica: Freedom, Survival, and...

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2025/11/04

Hard Knock Radio opens with Jamal Ibn Mumia, son of Mumia Abu-Jamal, reporting back from journalism conferences in Havana and recent stops on the Mumia Freedom Tour. He describes global concern over U.S. imperial reach and the surprise among delegates that political prisoners like Mumia Abu-Jamal and Imam Jamil Al-Amin remain incarcerated. Jamal praises Cuban resilience under the blockade, detailing shortages of basic medicine and the mutual aid he and comrades delivered. He calls for grassroots

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59:58

Sophi Wilmore of Feed Black Futures on SNAP

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2025/11/03

Here’s a clear look at the conversation between Hard Knock Radio host Davey D and Sophi Wilmore, co director of Feed Black Futures, about the fallout from threatened SNAP cuts and what communities can do about it. The discussion opens with breaking context. A federal judge has ordered the administration to keep SNAP funded during the shutdown turmoil, but compliance remains unclear. Sophi notes that California and San Francisco were already moving to cushion the blow for CalFresh recipients, yet the

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59:58

The American Economy and the Unstable Job Market...

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2025/10/31

Hard Knock Radio sat down with Seattle based organizer Courtney Scott to unpack a season of layoffs and a grinding federal shutdown. Davey opened with the scope. Amazon and UPS are shedding tens of thousands. Tech and media giants are cutting deep. Hundreds of thousands of Black women in federal jobs have already been pushed out, with more furloughs looming. He also flagged a dangerous fog. The administration has weakened labor data tracking, which makes the crisis feel personal and isolated instead

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59:59

Criminalizing Survival: Oakland’s New Black Codes?

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2025/10/30

Davey D opens with the stakes in Oakland and beyond. Cities are floating policies that make it easier to disappear unhoused people, often by criminalizing basic survival. He notes how public narratives erase who is actually living outside in Oakland. Many are older Black residents. That reality sits in tension with Black leaders invoking civil rights language while backing punitive approaches.Needa B frames the present through history. She draws a straight line from Black Codes and Jim Crow to

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59:57

Holding the Line: Rasheed Shabazz on Protest, Press...

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2025/10/29

Host Davey D sat down with journalist Rasheed Shabazz of Oakland Voices to unpack a tense week in the Bay. Rumors of federal agents and possible troop deployments gave way to a confirmed staging at Coast Guard Island between Oakland and Alameda. Community members quickly mobilized, forming a blockade and confronting a heavy show of force. One protester was struck by a projectile, underscoring the stakes on the ground. Shabazz recapped a hastily called press conference where Oakland officials,

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59:58

In Conversation with Akinyele Umoja: The Memoirs of...

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2025/10/28

In this powerful and timely conversation, Dr. Akinyele Umoja joins us to discuss The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity. Umoja, a scholar of African American history and co-editor of the memoirs, explores the legacy of Robert and Mabel Williams”radical Black freedom fighters who advocated for armed self-defense in the face of racial terror in the Jim Crow South. The conversation delves into their political activism, exile,

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Hard Knock Radio – October 27, 2025

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2025/10/27

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 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

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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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59:58

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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59:59

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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