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- Editors, The Black Agenda ReviewThe phrase racial capitalism first emerged in the context of the anti-Apartheid and southern African liberation struggles in the 1970s.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorThe theory of change that depicts the likes of Bernie Sanders and AOC as the leaders of the class struggle has failed to materialize in reality.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceCut plastic cuffs from imaginations— Dream larger in dire situations… IMAGINE every cook governing— every governor cooking up people puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistIt is critical that the Black left understand U.S./European imperialism as a race project, and organize accordingly.
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorAs head of USAID, Power will be in perfect position to wield foreign aid as a cudgel for beating foreign heads of state till they bow to US empire, writes Ann Garrison.