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Bruce Dixon “a Real Soldier” of the Movement
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
09 Jul 2019
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BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon, the former Black Panther and lifelong activist who died from blood cancer at age 68, was “ a real soldier in the sense that he was willing and eager to take on any aspect of the liberation struggle and to explore all of the questions that face us, with the aim of creating the most efficient mechanisms for movement politics,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, speaking at the Left Forum conference in New York City.

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