Linked with The Black Agenda Report, with The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation, and with Obama’s Race Neutral Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions.
The son of famed disc jockey Rudy The Deuce Rutherford, the first Black man to host a non-gospel television show in the Deep South, Columbus, Georgia, 1958, Glen was reading newswire copy on-the-air at age eleven. Glen’s first full-time broadcast news job was at James Brown’s Augusta, Georgia radio station WRDW, in 1970, where The Godfather of Soul shortened Glen’s surname to Ford. Glen Ford worked as a newsperson at four more local stations: in Columbus, Georgia, Atlanta, Baltimore, where he created his first radio syndication, a half-hour weekly news magazine called Black World Report, Washington, DC. In 1974, Ford joined the Mutual Black Network, 88 stations, where he served as Capitol Hill, State Department and White House correspondent, and Washington Bureau Chief, while also producing a daily radio commentary. In 1977, Ford co-launched, produced and hosted America’s Black Forum ABF, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television. … (full text).
Historic « firsts, » « mosts, » and « onlys » are the hallmarks of Glen Ford’s long career.
He says: « The consequences of vast and growing U.S. economic disparities are fatal for the poor – and getting worse. In the space of 20 years, affluent Americans have increased their longevity relative to the poor, and may have reaped most of the benefits of the medical knowledge accumulated during that era … The poor die quicker, as audio (click on link), or read it on the page (watch the whole radio archive of The Black Agenda Report, in audio AND as text).
Corporate Reporters Tell Lies for a Living, 23 April 2008.
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Sorry, I found no photo of Glen Ford, USA, certifying it’s the one of the Black Agenda Report .
His commentary: The state with the harshest record for putting African Americans behind bars has become the first to pass a law that would assess the impact of new criminal justice legislation on minorities. Iowa imprisons Blacks at 13 times the rate of whites – more than twice the national average of racial disparity in incarceration. Prison activists have long called for impact statements at every stage of the criminal justice system, so that gross racial biases could be systematically eliminated. If there is to be a national dialogue on race, it should begin with the Black American Gulag, which comprises nearly half of what is by far the world’s largest prison system. Click the flash player to hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary.
Bigger Than Hip Hop, a look at the state of black political leadership.
He writes: Tavis Smiley never wanted to pick a fight with Barack Obama. In point of fact, it is not in the media entrepreneur’s nature to pick fights with persons of power or popularity. But Obama’s zealots do not accept anything less than abject, unqualified loyalty to their leader, whom they treat more as a messiah than a Chicago politician with close ties to Wall Street … (full text).
Cancer in the Congressional Black Caucus CBC as that body has become increasingly Pro-Corporate and Anti-Community, by Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report.
ALSO, there appears to be some growing dissatisfaction with Barack Obama among some African-Americans who feel he’s wrapped up the black vote without making any promises about improving the lives of people of color. Glen Ford of the Blackagenda Report writes that Obama « never lied to Black America » because the candidate hasn’t promised blacks anything: « Without really trying, in fact, without committing a single purposeful act, Black America has succeeded in rendering itself totally irrelevant this election season, » writes Ford. « About 90 percent of Black America has allied itself with a candidate that never promised them a damn thing. » Ford goes on to say Black America has become ‘irrelevant’ in this election. It’s pretty provocative stuff … (full text).
American History, Black History and the the Right to Bear Arms, April 19, 2008.
