At-large DC Council candidates Robert White and Rodney Grant are fed up
“This is going to be the Super Bowl of elections,” predicted Rodney “Red” Grant, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent at-large DC...
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May 59 min read
DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto’s sprint to unopposed
As the audience inside the Woman’s National Democratic Club on New Hampshire Avenue NW waited last November for Ward 2 DC Councilmember...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 25, 20236 min read
What's the Problem with DC AG Brian Schwalb?
DURING the past month, I have heard that question multiple times from people across DC who are not satisfied with AG Brian Schwalb’s...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 25, 20237 min read
Ruth Simmons’ hardscrabble journey to elite higher education
WHEN the galley for Ruth J. Simmons’ memoir — Up Home: One Girl’s Journey — arrived in my mailbox a few months ago, I couldn’t wait to...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 17, 20237 min read
The Radical Historian Among Us
LONG before Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) shouted the phrase “Black Power” in 1966; before James Brown, sans his famous processed...
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jonetta rose barras
Jan 28, 20237 min read
A City Traumatized By Crime
I am on the telephone listening to my granddaughter discuss the week’s events. Normally she is a confident, self-assured, sassy high...
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jonetta rose barras
Oct 21, 20227 min read
A hot at-large DC Council race gets hotter
DC voters began receiving their ballots for the November general election this week. The contests for mayor, DC Council chair and council...
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jonetta rose barras
Oct 21, 20228 min read
DC elected officials claim to care about poor people, but the HUD report says otherwise
DON’T expect me to mince words here. The DC government and, thus, the entire city, particularly low-income residents, have been drowning...
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jonetta rose barras
Oct 1, 20228 min read
Finding the truth, passing the word
“[T]HE highway was lined with yellow wildflowers that danced from their roots every time a car drove by. Smoke seeped up into the sky...
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jonetta rose barras
Jun 27, 20215 min read
The District of Columbia's Legislative Purgatory
Judith Sandalow sat inside the square — the virtual infrastructure made ubiquitous by the coronavirus pandemic as we’ve sought to remain...
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jonetta rose barras
Apr 19, 20215 min read
Wishing and Hoping: Can the DCGOP Declare Victory in 2022?
Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Renewing the Call for a Commission on Truth, Healing and Transformation
“We need a blueprint for a new society,” author, literary and political activist E. Ethelbert Miller told me when I proposed last year...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 2, 20211 min read
IN HONOR OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
Masks, Trumpets, Gris, Gris and Us what of women like us undefinable women taught to love men feverishly be August humidity and fried...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 2, 20216 min read
DC chief financial officer brings new meaning to ‘When the going gets tough … ’
Talk about inopportune. Here we are in the middle of tax season, the middle of budget season, and the middle of a public health emergency...
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jonetta rose barras
Feb 16, 20214 min read
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND BUILDING THE CIVIC CULTURE
AS I read Arnie Graf’s wonderful book, Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing (ACTA 2020), I was reminded of the years I...
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jonetta rose barras
Nov 26, 20201 min read
Artist as Change Agents
This interview with Author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller is part of the occasional series: Conversations with jonetta Artist...
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jonetta rose barras
Sep 2, 202010 min read
Joe Biden Should Create a National Reconciliation Commission as Soon as He Takes Office
DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Joe Biden needs an aggressive agenda to end the violence and racism.
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jonetta rose barras
Aug 7, 20206 min read
DC Shakes Up Health Care Delivery in Pandemic
In the middle of a deadly global health pandemic, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has decided to shake up the city’s health care delivery system.
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jonetta rose barras
Jun 25, 20201 min read
PAGING EMMETT FREMAUX
Who can save DC's November general election?
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