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- Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior ColumnistHealth care disparities are inevitable when notions of white superiority are guiding principles in every sector of society.
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- Editors, The Black Agenda ReviewA 1943 Merze Tate essay provides a trenchant critique of the false hope of peace offered by the white west to “the darker peoples” of the world.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence