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- Glen Ford , BAR executive editor“The nominally Black-controlled local government is incapable of meaningful response.”
- Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor"...comics and sci fi brought to us by capitalist corporate media fail to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look like"
- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“The commitment must be to end United States interventions and declare independence from anyone who is not firmly opposed to crimes cooked up in Washington.”
- Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence35 lb question mark, 3 ft exclamation point, doesn’t cringe at loud sounds or pee his bed behind nightmares. Camryn, my three year-old Sugar