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- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistThe African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state and its ruling class.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” ― Angela Y. Davis
- Brent CebulMore than half the 1.2 million Americans displaced by “urban renewal” were Black.