The Citizen's Grassroots Congress is funded by the
Central Ohio Green Education Fund

Member, COSMO

Come To The GLEN FORD Lecture

The CITIZENS GRASSROOTS CONGRESS

Along With other sponsors will present on Oct. 7th, 2009

Glen Ford. "Progressive Politics Under a Black Corporate President." and: "The Missed Moment: How the Left Allowed the Financial Crisis to Pass It By."

Glen Ford speaking at Capital University at 7:00.  Bridge of Learning Hall.  Mr. Ford is the editor of the Black Agenda Report.  

For information Contact Rick Wilhelm - rwilhelm2@att.net  

Home:  614-274-1767   Cell: 614-460-9106

About Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black Agenda Report

Glen Ford  worked as a newsperson at four local stations: in Columbus, Georgia, Atlanta, Baltimore – where he created his first radio syndication, a half-hour weekly news magazine called “Black World Report” – 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 “America’s Black Forum” (ABF), the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television.

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

While still host and co-owner of ABF, Ford in 1979 created “Black Agenda Reports,” 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.

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.

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