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- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorIf independent media want to be a real counterweight to establishment media, they must challenge the status quo in its entirety.
- Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnistMuch of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceWho tolt us ‘bout an unknown 19th of June— who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who? Who say Douglass alive and doin’ good work— who turn the War House into a grifter perk? Who?
- Mark P. FancherMany who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy.