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Pacifica Network shares excerpts from Glen Ford’s keynote speech at the Grassroots Radio Conference in 2019.
The speech gives a history of black radio news, including Ford’s experience working at WRDW, James Brown’s radio station in Augusta, Georgia. While employed there in 1970, Ford whipped up a stalwart resistance movement with the local leadership, thereby uniting the town to boycott discriminatory businesses.
Veteran Journalist Glen Ford passed away in July 2021.
