by Heather Ann Thompsom The U.S. penal system is like a cosmic Black Hole: far more massive than its counterparts anywhere else in the world -- with 2.3 million behind bars, 4.5 million on probation…

by Candice Bernd, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Maureen Nandini Mitra Most people realize that prisons are bad for the bodies and minds of the inmates. However, the vast U.S. prison gulag is also a huge…

by Jeffrey B. Perry The modern Black liberation movement can be said to have begun with the founding of Hubert Harrison’s Liberty League, in Harlem, a century ago. The League demanded that lynching…

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump appears to think he’s convinced the Saudis “to reject jihadist terror and to punish Qatar for its support of ISIS and al-Qaida.” Trump is not very…

by BAR editor and senior columist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump backed out of the Paris climate accords, but “the world leaders who condemn him are even more guilty because they have used sleight…