The People's War Show, Episode #70: Tribute to Glen Ford, African freedom fighter

<p>This episode of The People’s War show is dedicated to remembering the life and work of Glen Ford, heroic journalist and African freedom fighter, with commentary by:</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Nia Ford, Glen's daughter</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Founder of the No Fear Coalition and the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">New York State Assemblymember Charles Barron</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Efia Nwangaza, manager of WMXP radio in Greenville, South Carolina</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Nellie Bailey of Harlem Fight Back Against War at Home & Abroad</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Zaki Baruti, President General of the Universal African People’s Organization</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Belinda Parker-Brown, CEO of Louisiana United International</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Chairman Omali Yeshitela, African People's Socialist Party</li> </ul> <p>Glen Ford was the son of the famed disc jockey Rudy “The Deuce” Rutherford, the first Black man to host a non-gospel television show in the Deep South – Columbus, Georgia, in 1958. </p> <p>Glen was reading newswire copy on-the-air at age eleven. His 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 last name to “Ford.”</p> <p>Comrade Glen worked as a newsperson at four more local stations: in Columbus, Georgia, Atlanta, and Baltimore – where he created his first radio syndication, a half-hour weekly news magazine called “Black World Report” – and Washington, DC. </p> <p>In 1974, Glen Ford joined the Mutual Black Network of 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. </p> <p>In 1977, Ford co-launched, produced and hosted “America’s Black Forum” (ABF), the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television. ABF