The Barras Report Blog

RATEPAYERS beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export...

NOT long after her adopted twins came to live with her in Freeport, Texas, Melanie Oldham saw their health start to decline. Both...

Was she someone's grandmother? How had she fallen into such dire straits?

By Glynda C. Carr AS we approach this critical election season, a remarkable story unfolds across America. Young Black women are not...

WHEN we see a 75-year-old white man out in the woods with a group of Black and brown kids from low-income neighborhoods, teaching them...

Imagine the neighborhood your family has lived in for more than 150 years being turned into a deteriorating flood zone. Now imagine the...

WHEN General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford – the “Big Three” American automakers – were close to extinction 15 years ago, their workers and...

ON Saturday, environmental advocate Bill Vanderberg was where he is most Saturdays during the year – leading volunteers maintaining...

A year in which there are only three races for governor’s seats, all in the Deep South, wouldn’t normally create a lot of political...

By Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy “I don’t want nobody to give me nothing. Just open up the door and I’ll get it myself.” That line from the...

THE interstates built in the 1950s and 1960s killed the vitality of the communities where people of color and the poor lived, from...

IF a public opinion poll done last month is right, more than half of you won’t know what I mean by the initials “ESG,” and fewer than one...

By Ben Jealous LIKE so many of us right now, I’ve got Georgia on my mind. As I write this, I’ve just gotten back from meeting with Black...

THERE is always a new low for Trump Republicans. And that is pretty frightening. Take the latest exercise in lawlessness, dishonesty, and...

THINGS are about to get worse for millions of vulnerable people in our country. It looks like the far right-wing majority on the U.S....

ANTI-DEMOCRATIC authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas....

HISTORY was made in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965. Alabama state troopers viciously attacked peaceful voting rights marchers at the...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden is about to name the first Black woman ever nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court—in fact, he may have already done so...

THE Republican National Committee (RNC) is officially letting Americans know that it is more committed to former President Donald Trump...