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.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

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