In a sweeping order, a judge has ruled that the bail system in Harris County, Texas, including the city of Houston, is unconstitutional. Because of the decision, “we are on the road to eradicating the notion of wealth-base human caging,” said Alec Karakatsanis, executive director of the Washington-based Civil Rights Corps. The ruling affects defendants charged with low level offenses. “On any given night in this country there are about 450,000 human beings who are sitting in a cage because they can’t come up with a particular amount of money that’s been required for their release,” said Karakatsanis.
Barack Obama was not a friend to Black people. He bailed out the banks, deported millions, and bombed Muslim countries, and now his $850 million monument in Chicago is pushing Black families out of…
“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leader have ignored all of this just to please Donald Trump, so…
"Gambling Man" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
The Sahel is facing one of its worst security crises in years after a massive terrorist attack in Mali killed the country's defense minister. While the people of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger are…
