{"id":257002,"date":"2021-07-29T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=119365"},"modified":"2021-07-29T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:03:52","slug":"glen-ford-of-black-agenda-report-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/29\/glen-ford-of-black-agenda-report-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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n the fall of 2006, Glen Ford<\/a>, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report.<\/p>\n

Historic \u201cfirsts,\u201d \u201cmosts,\u201d and \u201conlys\u201d are the hallmarks of Glen Ford\u2019s long career.<\/p>\n

The son of famed disc jockey Rudy \u201cThe Deuce\u201d Rutherford, the first Black man to host a non-gospel television show in the Deep South \u2013 Columbus, Georgia, 1958 \u2013 Glen was reading newswire copy on-the-air at age eleven. Glen\u2019s first full-time broadcast news job was at James Brown\u2019s Augusta, Georgia radio station WRDW, in 1970 \u2013 where \u2018The Godfather of Soul\u201d shortened Glen\u2019s surname to \u201cFord.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glen Ford worked as a newsperson at four more local stations: in Columbus, Georgia, Atlanta, Baltimore \u2013 where he created his first radio syndication, a half-hour weekly news magazine called \u201cBlack World Report\u201d \u2013 and 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 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Black Forum\u201d (ABF), the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television.<\/p>\n

ABF made Black broadcast history. For the next four years, the program generated national and international headlines nearly every week. Never before \u2013 and never since \u2013 had a Black news entity commanded the weekly attention of the news services (AP, UPI, Reuters, Agence France-Presse \u2013 even Tass, the Soviet news agency) and the broadcast networks.<\/p>\n

In 1987, Ford launched \u201cRap It Up,\u201d the first nationally syndicated Hip Hop music show, broadcast on 65 radio stations. <\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While still host and co-owner of ABF, Ford in 1979 created \u201cBlack Agenda Reports,\u201d which provided five programs each day on Black Women, History, Business, Sports and Entertainment to 66 radio stations. The syndication produced more short-form programming than the two existing Black radio networks, combined.<\/p>\n

Ford also produced the McDonald\u2019s-sponsored radio series \u201cBlack History Through Music,\u201d aired on 50 stations, nationwide.<\/p>\n

In 1987, Ford launched \u201cRap It Up,\u201d the first nationally syndicated Hip Hop music show, broadcast on 65 radio stations. During its six years of operations, \u201cRap It Up\u201d allowed Ford to play an important role in the maturation of a new African American musical genre. He organized three national rap music conventions, and wrote the Hip Hop column for Jack The Rapper\u2019s Black radio trade magazine.<\/p>\n

Ford co-founded BlackCommentator.com (BC) in 2002. The weekly journal quickly became the most influential Black political site on the Net. In October, 2006, Ford and the entire writing team left BC to launch BlackAgendaReport.com<\/a> (BAR).<\/p>\n

In addition to his broadcast and Internet experience, Glen Ford was national political columnist for Encore American & Worldwide News magazine; founded The Black Commentator and Africana Policies magazines; authored The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion (IOJ, 1985); voiced over 1000 radio commercials (half of which he also produced) and scores of television commercials; and served as reporter and editor for three newspapers (two daily, one weekly).<\/p>\n

Ford was a founding member of the Washington chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ); executive board member of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists (NATWJ); media specialist for the National Minority Purchasing Council; and has spoken at scores of colleges and universities.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0 First published at LA Progressive<\/a><\/em><\/p>The post Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report Dies<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

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n the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report. Historic \u201cfirsts,\u201d \u201cmosts,\u201d and \u201conlys\u201d are the hallmarks of Glen Ford\u2019s long career. The son of famed disc jockey Rudy \u201cThe Deuce\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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