Pan-African Journal

Listen to this edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program will present our regular PANW reports dealing with events in the Central African Republic, Libya, Sudan, the anti-racist struggle in the United States and other issues. In the second hour we continue our Voices from History segment examining the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. coming up on the 86th anniversary of his birth Jan. 15. The federally-recognized holiday is being held on Mon. Jan. 19, where in Detroit, the location we are broadcasting from, the MLK Committee will host the 12th Annual MLK Day Rally & March starting at Noon at Central United Methodist Church located on Woodward avenue and East Adams in downtown Detroit. The event draws on the social justice and anti-war legacy of Dr. King and is the largest gathering of progressive forces in southeastern Michigan at the beginning of every year.

Listen to this Pan-African Journal special edition hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, This program will include our regular PANW reports on developments during 2014 and other issues. In the second hour our Voices From History segment features a rare audio presentation highlighting African American playwright Lorraine Hansberry speaking at a public meeting on June 15, 1964 on the Black Revolution and the White Backlash. We also initiate the first in a series of programs honoring the 86th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listen to this Pan-African Journal special edition hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, This program will include our regular PANW reports on developments during 2014 and other issues. In the second hour our Voices From History segment features a rare audio presentation highlighting African American playwright Lorraine Hansberry speaking at a public meeting on June 15, 1964 on the Black Revolution and the White Backlash. We also initiate the first in a series of programs honoring the 86th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program presents the regular PANW reports on developments in the anti-racist struggle inside the United States among other issues. The second hour will feature an audio documentary on the false premises which took the U.S. into the war in Vietnam and the opposition which arose to the conflict. Finally an examination of the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa and its impact socially, politically and economically during 2014.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program presents the regular PANW reports on developments in the anti-racist struggle inside the United States among other issues. The second hour will feature an audio documentary on the false premises which took the U.S. into the war in Vietnam and the opposition which arose to the conflict. Finally an examination of the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa and its impact socially, politically and economically during 2014.

Listen to the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In our regular PANW reports we look at and analyze the recent open letter written by the newly-elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on the task facing this North African state; the increasing instability threatening Tunisia from Libya where rebels in the post-Gaddafi state continue to their internecine warfare; the lawsuit that was filed by an African American man against the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) accusing the police of racial profiling leading to his arrest; and the ongoing struggle in Missouri to reclaim the just legacy of slain Michael Brown where one of his memorials were destroyed on Dec. 25. The second hour highlights the largest African slave rebellion in New Orleans in 1811 as well as the origins of the United States Women's Rights Movement in the Anti-Slavery Abolitionist struggles of the mid-19th century. The final segment reviews the historic 1951 student strike against school segregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia that was led by 17-year-old Barbara Johns.

Listen to the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In our regular PANW reports we look at and analyze the recent open letter written by the newly-elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi on the task facing this North African state; the increasing instability threatening Tunisia from Libya where rebels in the post-Gaddafi state continue to their internecine warfare; the lawsuit that was filed by an African American man against the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) accusing the police of racial profiling leading to his arrest; and the ongoing struggle in Missouri to reclaim the just legacy of slain Michael Brown where one of his memorials were destroyed on Dec. 25. The second hour highlights the largest African slave rebellion in New Orleans in 1811 as well as the origins of the United States Women's Rights Movement in the Anti-Slavery Abolitionist struggles of the mid-19th century. The final segment reviews the historic 1951 student strike against school segregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia that was led by 17-year-old Barbara Johns.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode will include PANW reports on the recent attack against the African Union headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia; the ongoing tensions between police and the African American community in the United States; and the economic impact of the decline in oil and other commodity prices internationally. The second hour consists of two rare audio features on legendary African American novelist, essayist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, plus an 1965 archived interview with Fannie Lou Hamer, a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and vice chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The final hour presents an examination of the history of the oil industry in U.S. history.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This episode will include PANW reports on the recent attack against the African Union headquarters in Mogadishu, Somalia; the ongoing tensions between police and the African American community in the United States; and the economic impact of the decline in oil and other commodity prices internationally. The second hour consists of two rare audio features on legendary African American novelist, essayist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, plus an 1965 archived interview with Fannie Lou Hamer, a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and vice chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The final hour presents an examination of the history of the oil industry in U.S. history.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. In this broadcast we will feature our PANW reports on developments in St. Louis County, Missouri where yet another African American youth was shot to death by police on Dec. 23; the upcoming 50th anniversary of the culmination of the voting rights struggle in Selma in 1965; as well as the impact on the declining price of oil in Nigeria. In the second hour we examine the relationship between the growth of capitalism and slavery in the world economic system. Our third hour does a retrospective history on the role of sugar in western culture and political economy.