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- Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnistMillions of white people glorify mass murderers because their sense of identity and place in society is deeply tied to white supremacy.
- Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorThe terrain of struggle will need to expand for the movement to avoid a Democratic Party-induced slumber.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residencePapa’s proud of you, handsome Grandsons, for hand-lettered signs, for taking to the streets during your generation’s 10 days that shook the world!
- Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistWe must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream.
- Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnistUnless we identify genocide as the common underpinning to all of the brutality directed against Black people in the US, we are talking about the wrong thing.