The Barras Report Blog

DURING the recent kickoff for his mayoral campaign, Ward 8 DC Council member Trayon White led his supporters in a chant: “We are going to...

“When I go to sleep at night, I kind of sleep with one eye open, so I’m never really sleeping, because I don’t want [the] building to...

IT’S disappointing that some DC advocates will use almost any means, including deliberate manipulation of the public and withholding of...

THIS may not be the third article chronicling the ill-advised maneuvers of Wayne Turnage, the District of Columbia’s deputy mayor for...

As a backdrop to the budget deliberations expected to begin this week in the DC Council, a fight has ensued between several legislators,...

THE bullet crashed her chest, escaping through her back. It was so sudden and swift, Reagan Grimes didn’t fully realized she was shot....

It’s commendable that DC elected officials are concerned about the survival of local small businesses in DC’s post-pandemic reality. It’s...

When Black comedian Flip Wilson performed some outlandish, wholly funny routine on his television show in the 1970s, he ordinarily...

TWO seemingly ordinary people—one black, the other white--collided on the streets of Minneapolis in May 2020. It was in the middle of a...

A confluence of timely reports, including Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety by the DC Police reform Commission and pending...

WE 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...

THE average DC resident reading the Department of Health Care Finance Support Act of 2021 as proposed by Mayor Muriel Bowser could be...

A smile raced across my face when I learned that a lawsuit had been filed against former President Donald J. Trump for inciting the...

WHEN nine Black women were accepted into DC’s Home Purchase Assistance Program for first-time homebuyers, they believed they were moving...