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- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorThe man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator, writes Ann Garrison.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceThere sat the morally constipated politician fartin’ ‘round with truth like an amateur magician… Locked, loaded, flinging fecal matter at a class mate…
- Robin D.G. KellyIn the 1960s LA communities of color prioritized a radical tradition of care and the transformative power of art and politics.