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- Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editorGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was born in 1924, the son of Prescott Sheldon Bush, a banker and politician, senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.
- Noura ErakatHill’s bold statement to the UN is part of the internationalist Black radical tradition, exemplified by Paul Robeson, the Black Panther Party, and today’s Black Lives Matter movement.
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editorEspecially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office.
- Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residenceLording over the landscape like giant Insects sucking soul, blood, chocolate into multi-colored mushrooms Metastasizing citywide. Officers ordering vacant storefronts,
- Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnistThe post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation.