Tag: hip hop media

Hard Knock Radio’s Anita Johnson and Davey D reflect on 25 years of bringing community voices, hip hop analysis and grassroots expertise to KPFA’s airwaves. Their conversation traces the show’s roots in resistance and its ongoing commitment to independent media and collective liberation.

Recently, the Bay View newspaper won the SF Bay Guardian’s 2009 Best of the Bay Award for best local newspaper because we are a “fight-back” publication. While at the party, I ran into my media-making buddies from Distortion 2 Static, a local Hip Hop TV show, who had also won a 2009 Best of the Bay Award, theirs for best local TV show, and I thought about the fact that I had never written anything to expose our readers to what they do.