Glen Ford is the Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report, son of the
famed disc jokey Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, the first Black
television host to have a non-gospel radio in the Deep South. In the
1970s he was a correspondent and journalist covering Capitol Hill and
the White House for the Mutual Black network, and later hosted the
nation’s first syndicated Black news interview program, “America’s Black
Forum.” Since then, Glen has been one of the nation’s leading voices
in pol...
Glen Ford is the Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report, son of the
famed disc jokey Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, the first Black
television host to have a non-gospel radio in the Deep South. In the
1970s he was a correspondent and journalist covering Capitol Hill and
the White House for the Mutual Black network, and later hosted the
nation’s first syndicated Black news interview program, “America’s Black
Forum.” Since then, Glen has been one of the nation’s leading voices
in political and social analysis and commentary on current affairs in
the African American community. He is also a founding member of the
Washington chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, a
board member of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists and is a
frequent lecturer on the role of progressive media at universities. His
website is BlackAgendaReport.com. Glen’s radio program – The Black
Agenda Report – can be heard every Monday at 11:00 am on the Progressive
Radio Network
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