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- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceThe acrobats are back—riding bareback and backwards on Donkeys! They’re back juggling hocus-pocus focus groups; Back, spinning Wall Street straw into fools’ gold for the war-
- Mark P. FancherThe U.S. can never be reformed to render justice to its African residents. “Our struggle must have Africa at its core.”
- Matthew D. LassiterDetroit’s wanton killing of hundreds of Blacks in the civil right era shows why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail.