Black Nationalism and the Peoples' Movement - Ford Pt3

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3. "Part I" is fascinating watch about his early years. Amazing he survived it.

How he coped and survived with two such radically different parents (Irish Communist Activist mother and Black Deejay father living in "whites only" South plus his experience joining the military at 17 to go to Vietnam, training as a paratrooper and his experiences there are vividly revealing of that time in America .
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October 24, 2013
Growing Up Black in American Apartheid - Ford Pt1
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father