Hard Knock Radio – February 2, 2026
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.
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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.
Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, we got to fight the powers that be!
Today on the show, guest host Kalonji Changa is joined by Martin Reynolds, Co-Executive Director of Revenue and External Affairs at the Maynard Institute, and Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Executive Director and Editor of One Peoples Project / IDAVOX, for a timely and urgent conversation on press freedom and government accountability. The discussion centers on recent … Continued
Environmental Racism, Data Centers, and Community Health Impacts
On this episode, we speak with LaTricea Adams, MAT, EdS (she/her/hers)—Founder, CEO, and President of Young, Gifted & Green—about the growing fight against data centers as a form of environmental racism, with a focus on frontline communities like Boxtown, Tennessee. As the tech and AI economy rapidly expands, large-scale data centers are increasingly being built … Continued
The Murder of Keith Porter Jr. by an ICE Officer
Today on Hard Knock Radio, we spoke with Dr. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, about the fatal shooting of Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old Black father of two who was killed on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty ICE officer in Los Angeles. Authorities and the Department of Homeland Security characterize … Continued
In Conversation with Walter Greason and George Galvis PT.2
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D continued the conversation about the escalating federal crackdown in Minnesota with two guests offering organizing and historical context: Walter Greason, an author, organizer, and professor of history based in St. Paul, and George Galvis, a Bay Area organizer with the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights Youth Justice known … Continued
The ICE Invasion of Minnesota
On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D opened the show with an urgent conversation with independent journalist Georgia Fort, who has been reporting from the ground in Minnesota. Fort described what is unfolding in Minneapolis and St. Paul as a code red moment for the nation. She argued that the scale of the federal presence, … Continued
HKR Special Programming: Build and Fight Formula 10: Democratizing the Economy
Today on Hard Knock Radio, we present a special edition of Build and Fight Formula featuring Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson, in a wide-ranging conversation on bold strategies for grassroots survival and resistance. As part of the ongoing Build and Fight Formula series, the discussion centers the growing urgency of self-defense amid rising authoritarianism. In … Continued
Part Two – Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back and The New York City Rent Freeze Campaign and the Mamdani’s Pledge
Part Two: On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Joshua Davis, a history professor at the University of Baltimore and author of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. The conversation digs into a part of civil rights history that is … Continued
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back with Author Joshua Clark Davis
On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Joshua Davis, a history professor at the University of Baltimore and author of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. The conversation digs into a part of civil rights history that is usually blurred out … Continued
AI Data Centers and Carbon Emissions
On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, Davey D sits down with Jean Su, Director of the Energy Justice Program at the Center for Biological Diversity, for a critical conversation on the hidden environmental costs of artificial intelligence. As AI data centers rapidly expand across the country, they are driving up carbon emissions, consuming enormous … Continued
Special Programming: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute
On this special tribute episode, Hard Knock Radio honors the life, legacy, and enduring impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. More than a historical figure, Dr. King was a radical thinker, moral visionary, and relentless advocate for justice whose work continues to challenge systems of racism, economic exploitation, militarism, and inequality. This tribute reflects … Continued