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Glen Ford, who died in July 2021, was executive director ofBlack Agenda Reportand was previously co-founder of BlackCommentator.com. He had extensive experience in radio and television, where he launched influential programming such as America's Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television, and Rap It Up. Ford was national political columnist forEncore American & Worldwide Newsmagazine and the author ofThe Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media
A talented and brilliant writer, gifted with an acerbic sense of humor and uncompromising in his integrity and courage, he will be very hard to replace. - Chris Hedges Glen Ford is the most brilliant, courageous and consistent writer and journalist in the Black radical and independent tradition, of his generation - from the Sixties until now. -Cornel West Glen Ford was the consummate journalist, a man who demanded rigorous analysis of himself and others, and who lived by the dictum of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. - Margaret Kimberley, co-founder, Black Agenda Report Scorching... These provocations raise hard-to-dismiss questions about the lack of true racial progress in America. Progressives will heed this full-throated rallying cry - Publishers Weekly Glen Ford Carves Up the American Empire - CounterPunch Deeply impressive.... Worth reading for the fascinating final section alone, which addresses Black Lives Matter, reparations and the American Left to bracing effect - Tortoise A fearlessly honest truthteller... Glen wrote with unmatched erudition and knowledge - Let's Try Democracy
