Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program features our regular PANW reports regarding developments related to the African Union (AU), Egypt, Burundi and Libya. In the second hour we present the New York City version of the Pan-African Journal for April 27, 2015 hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe and produced by Bernard White of Community Progressive Radio (CPRMetro.org). The final hour in recognition of our month-long commemoration of Black Music Month (BMM) we broadcast an archived news item on the Chattanooga Bessie Smith Festival in honor of the legendary African American blues artist. In addition we will hear a rare address by African American novelist and essayist James Baldwin delivered on June 23, 1963 at Castlemount High School in Oakland, California. Baldwin talks about the impact of growing up in a white-dominated society.