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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
He had a history of healing.History of showing up torooms, sometimes surgically Masked.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
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Julia Wright
The arrest of a five-year-old captured public attention and ignited a prisoner revolt inside a U.S. ICE detention center.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Pomade man moves. Demented Don moves. Gun moll, puppy-killingmoves. Reich Ministers move and groove ghoulishly to Vanilla Ice —
Jacqueline Luqman
To dismiss revolutionary theory is to choose permanent defeat, reducing the movement to a hamster wheel of reaction and co-opted rage.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
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Willie Mack
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