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Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford Recalls When the Clintons Won Over Black America

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2016 “The Clintons were not the black favorites in 1992,” he explains. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

State of the Union 2015: Lethal, Predatory, Delusional

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 22, 2015 "In his next-to-last State of the Union address," writes Glen Ford, Editor of the Black Agenda Report, "President Obama flashed the suckers a bag of tricks that has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Congress, but will allow his apologists to claim that the genuine, more progressive Obama is revealing himself in his final two years in office." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Glen Ford

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 9, 2012 The old trope that truth telling requires a great deal of courage is not always right. Those who tell the truth often enjoy a rare freedom from the social pressures that compel others to distort what they know to make room for a belief in the world as they would like it to be.Those who tell the truth often enjoy a rare freedom from the social pressures that compel others to distort what they know to make room for a belief in the world as they would like it to be. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Obama: ‘Effective Evil’ or Progressives’ Best Hope?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 9, 2012 Whether President Obama should be supported or opposed in his bid for re-election this year is a fundamental question facing left-wing Americans who have been disappointed with his performance during his first term. Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown University and Glen Ford of BlackAgendaReport.com take up opposing sides of the argument. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )