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- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen FordCommunity control of police advocates in the Washington, DC region say their approach is the best -- and most democratic – way to achieve both defunding and total abolition of policing as it exists
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- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorScant attention has been placed on the context of anti-Asian racism and its roots in the history of U.S. imperialism.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorVictoire risked her life to establish that Hutu people were also killed by the Tutsi army, before, during, and after the Rwanda genocide, writes Ann Garrison.
- Editors, The Black Agenda ReviewThe manifesto claimed the LGBTI struggle as an indelible and urgent part of the history of Pan-Africanism and the ongoing movements for Black sovereignty.