Listen to the show HERE Hard Knock Radio | KPFA 94.1 FM | Davey D Detroit-born poet, author, and cultural activist Jessica Care Moore has spent decades pushing the boundaries of spoken word. Now she’s bringing poetry to the dance floor with her new house music album, The House That Poems Built. During a lively […]
The Legacy of Assata Shakur and Pauline Lumumba pt1
(HKR-08-09-26) Host Davey D spoke with Pan African organizer Obi Egbuna Jr. and activist and cultural producer Russell Shoatz III about Kotelemela Bolingo, a two-album project honoring the legacies of Assata Shakur and Pauline Opango Lumumba. Meaning “resistance with love” in Lingala, the collection includes 30 songs spanning six musical genres. Egbuna explained that the […]
Confronting Gender Based Violence, Masculinity, & Accountability
(HKR-04-22-26): On a powerful episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with filmmaker Byron Hurt and Wil DuBose of the New Jersey Coalition to End Domestic Violence to unpack the roots of gender based violence and the urgent need for accountability, healing, and community intervention. The conversation began with Davey D laying […]
HKR – Byron Hurt & Wil DuBose: Preventing Gender Based Violence
Summary (HKR-04-21-26) Davey D sits down with filmmaker Byron Hurt and Wil DuBose of the Men of Courage program for a critical conversation on preventing gender based violence and the role men must play in addressing harm within their communities. The discussion is grounded in both lived experience and long term work engaging Black and […]
HKR – Scholars David Stovall & Hodari Davis – Engineered Conflict and Community Solutions
Summary (HKR -04-26)Davey D sits down with author and educator David Stovall and Hodari Davis, co founder of Edutainment for Equity, for a critical discussion on structural violence and the concept of “engineered conflict.” Drawing from Stovall’s work, the conversation unpacks how systemic policies in housing, education, and policing have created conditions that destabilize Black […]






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