jonetta rose barras4 hours ago6 minA MEDITATION ON CRIME AND VIOLENCETWO seemingly ordinary people—one black, the other white--collided on the streets of Minneapolis in May 2020. It was in the middle of a...
jonetta rose barrasApr 27 minChanging the role of police, and confirming a new police chief in DCA confluence of timely reports, including Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety by the DC Police reform Commission and pending...
jonetta rose barrasApr 25 minTHE PANDEMIC: Mind Awakening and Altering, Part 1WE have been forced to walk each day with death for the past year—so many lives snatched by COVID-19, the disease caused by the...
jonetta rose barrasMar 55 minTHE NEVER-ENDING HEALTH CARE CONTRACTING FIASCO THE average DC resident reading the Department of Health Care Finance Support Act of 2021 as proposed by Mayor Muriel Bowser could be...
jonetta rose barrasFeb 236 minTHE NAACP AND U.S. REP. BENNIE THOMPSON TAKE UP THE FIGHTA smile raced across my face when I learned that a lawsuit had been filed against former President Donald J. Trump for inciting the...
jonetta rose barrasFeb 236 minDC's Abuse of Women HomeownersWHEN nine Black women were accepted into DC’s Home Purchase Assistance Program for first-time homebuyers, they believed they were moving...
jonetta rose barrasFeb 169 minTHE WOMAN UNDER THE BEDAs if a baby needing physical protection, she swaddled herself in the mauve quilt her grandmother gave her decades earlier. She had...
jonetta rose barrasFeb 56 minGetting to the core of CORE and vaccinationsWhat happens when a government, while attempting to address a health inequity in one community, creates an inequity in another? That...
jonetta rose barrasJan 156 minAn Assault and An InsurrectionIn truth, the signs of danger and harbingers of the assault on sanity, truth, democracy and the U.S. Constitution were glaringly present...
jonetta rose barrasDec 28, 20205 minDC's Medicaid Fiasco ContinuesNo one should be surprised that the DC Contract Appeals Board (CAB) has found that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration violated city...
jonetta rose barrasDec 28, 20206 minThe Coronavirus Pandemic and ViolenceDC Council member Charles Allen’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held a public roundtable with advocates and experts last...
jonetta rose barrasNov 26, 20206 minDO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE DC GOVERNMENT?Billie Shepperd’s voice is cracking every now and then. Her words are laden heavily with emotion. She is straining to contain her anger....
jonetta rose barrasSep 8, 20206 minThe face of waste fraud and abuse in DC governmentThe process seems to have been manipulated,” said one highly placed government source.
jonetta rose barrasAug 21, 20206 minIs DC's pledge of equity real or fake?DC officials have been pontificating about racial equity. Their handling of the Mediciad managed care contract suggest they are all talk.
jonetta rose barrasJul 8, 20205 minWhat is the price of a black girl's life?“If you utilize race and gender as subcategories, you are shorting women and people of color uniformly,” explained Robert Johnson
jonetta rose barrasJun 18, 20201 minPANDERING IN DC"Defund the police" may be a catchy slogan but it ignores the reality of life in urban centers.
jonetta rose barrasJun 7, 20207 minOPINION: BEYOND PAINTED STREETS AND SLOGANSSOME of us believe this is the right moment for the creation of a Peace and Reconciliation Commission.
jonetta rose barrasJun 1, 20207 minA PEOPLE IN PAIN AND ANGUISHPeople are angry. Their anger also represents a collective soul that is in pain, wondering when will the killing of black people end.
jonetta rose barrasMay 18, 20207 minOPINION: THE TERRITORY AND VISION FIGHT IN THE WARD 4 COUNCIL RACEIt may seem the typical campaign story. Beneath the surface, however, is a political narrative marked by undertones of race, class and ageis
jonetta rose barrasMay 16, 20203 minDreaming of a DC reclamation after COVID- 19“It seems like August,” I said recently to a Lyft driver who was taking me to my retina specialist for yet another of those God-awful inject