Glen Ford: American imperialism is unraveling (part 2)
Glen Ford worked as a Network Broadcast Journalist in Washington DC and created in 1977 along with Peter Gamble, America’s Black Forum which was the first nationally syndicated black news interview program on commercial television. America’s Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations — a feat no other black news entity [...]
March 21, 2011 / No Comment / Read MoreGlen Ford worked as a network broadcast journalist in Washington, D.C., and created in 1977, along with Peter Gamble, America’s Black Forum, which was the first nationally-syndicated black news interview program on commercial television. America’s Black Forum was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations, a feat no other black news entity had achieved [...]
Continue reading …As our nation focuses on how to climb out of a recession and how to overcome an unprecedented and unrelenting housing crisis, let’s not overlook another less visible crisis: our public housing crisis. It is important to take to heart President Obama’s State of the Union advice not to ignore the most vulnerable. Public housing [...]
Continue reading …Suppose Barack Obama is “A Magic Negro,” as some of his detractors saw and quickly ridiculed so that “thinking” people would not look into the possibility. Suppose we all have the possibility of being magical, depending on how much of our whole selves we can get to download from outer space or inner space or [...]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON, D.C. — What’s my take away from the White House Tribal Nations Conference? Easy. This is an administration that actually believes the United States government must represent all of the people, including American Indians and Alaska Natives. Make no mistake: Everything is not perfect between Indian Country and the United States as we close [...]
Continue reading …“Information is the currency of democracy.” Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that “state secrets” will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets, but President Obama continued the Bush tradition. The Courts and Congress and [...]
Continue reading …A little more than one year ago I wrote a column about the year 2024. The emphasis I made was that the ancient Mayans did not make predictions as much as they made calculations that have withstood the test of time and have proven to be unerringly accurate. For some odd reason I have been [...]
Continue reading …When we peer into the unknown our eyes are watching God, novelist Zora Neale Hurston might say. As I said my friend, the Miami businessman, Dave Williams, sees things differently than other people. He says this is because he is a space alien. He said that black folk did not come out to vote in [...]
Continue reading …Today, October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with today’s official recognition of Honduras Armed Forces day. The resistance, which is working for a truly democratic Honduras, renamed the day and created an alternative celebration because of a brutal police attack on musicians and others [...]
Continue reading …I attended Saturday’s One Nation Working Together rally. Truth be told, there were too many speakers droning on about a mash-up of progressive causes from green jobs to green cards for illegal immigrants. The rally was scheduled to end at 4:00 p.m., but folks were leaving by the thousands around 3:00 p.m. For me, the [...]
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