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- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford“The Democratic Party has used the language of law and order as much as the Republicans,” said Justin Lang, a doctoral candidate and activist at Brown University.
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen FordThe contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was about how best to preserve whiteness, said Dr Johnny Williams, professor of Sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticu
- Glen Ford, BAR Executive EditorWhoever wins the Electoral College, race-based politics will continue to allow the corporate rulers to ignore public demands for relief from the Race to the Bottom and endless war.
- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistBlack people will get nothing from a Joe Biden administration except fiscal austerity and the precarity that comes with it.
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistNo matter who sits in the white peoples’ house, we will have to continue to fight for social justice, democracy, and People(s)-Centered Human Rights.