From the Vault: Black History Month and the BBC

From the Vault continues marking Black History Month with rare and significant recordings from the Pacifica Radio Archives, but this week, with a twist. Our guest host is Joanne Griffith, BBC journalist who each week produces short segments of From the Vault for BBC’s Radio 5 Live.

We will share what the United Kingdom audiences hear each week. Joanne covers – for the U.K. audience – segments on Kenya with audio of Tom Mboya, Kenya’s General Secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labor, from 1959; commentary from KPFK’s Jerry Quickley on a rare 1965 radio documentary on the Watts Riots in Los Angeles entitled The Fire This Time; a tribute on the 20th anniversary of the passing of author and political activist James Baldwin; finally, a conversation with Jose Moya, a professor of Latin American history at UCLA – and Cuban himself – who recalls his memories of the revolution, marking the resignation of Cuban President Fidel Castro. We’ll also hear a special 1968 Revolution Rewind Moment, Tommie Smith and the 1968 Summer Olympics.