This is a 2014 episode with Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report, uploaded for the first time, that was rebroadcast for the March 17, 2016 episode of Freedom is a Constant Struggle.
[this bio is from 2014] Glen Ford, a veteran of more than 40 years in broadcast, print and Internet journalism, is a former Washington Bureau Chief and White House, Capitol Hill, and State Department correspondent. He co-founded and hosted “America’s Black Forum,” the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television; launched and owned the radio syndications “Black World Report,” “Black Agenda Reports,” and “Rap It Up,” the first national hip hop music show. He has worked as a radio newsman in Washington, Baltimore, and Georgia, and produced over 1,000 radio and TV commercials.
Ford has edited or served as staff reporter for three newspapers, was national political columnist for Encore - American & Worldwide News magazine; founded The Black Commentator and Africana Policies magazines; and authored “The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion” (IOJ, 1985).
On the Internet, Ford co-founded BlackCommentator.com in 2002 and BlackAgendaReport.com in 2006, a weekly magazine of “news, commentary and analysis from the Black left,” for which he’s currently the executive editor,
Ford hosts and produces the weekly, one-hour Black Agenda Radio program on the Progressive Radio network, as well as two weekly radio commentaries that air on approximately 40 radio stations, a veteran of more than 40 years in broadcast, print and Internet journalism, is a former Washington Bureau Chief and White House, Capitol Hill, and State Department correspondent. He co-founded and hosted “America’s Black Forum,” the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television; launched and owned the radio syndications “Black World Report,” “Black Agenda Reports,” and “Rap It Up,” the first national hip hop music show. He has worked as a radio newsman in Washington, Baltimore, and Georgia, and produced over 1,000 radio and TV commercials.
Ford has edited or served as staff reporter for three newspapers, was national political columnist for Encore - American & Worldwide News magazine; founded The Black Commentator and Africana Policies magazines; and authored “The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion” (IOJ, 1985).
On the Internet, Ford co-founded BlackCommentator.com in 2002 and BlackAgendaReport.com in 2006, a weekly magazine of “news, commentary and analysis from the Black left,” for which he’s currently the executive editor,
Ford hosts and produces the weekly, one-hour Black Agenda Radio program on the Progressive Radio network, as well as two weekly radio commentaries that air on approximately 40 radio stations.
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