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- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceCould the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces?
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistMillions have turned away from the illusions and corruption of capitalism toward the possibility of organizing a society informed by the values of cooperation, equality, community, peace, and life.