Glen Ford

Glen Ford (November 5, 1949 – July 28, 2021) was executive director of Black Agenda Report and was previously co-founder of BlackCommentator.com. He was a Vietnam War-era military veteran and a member of the Black Panther Party. 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 for Encore American & Worldwide News magazine and was the author of The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion.