The Barras Report Blog

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...

As if a baby needing physical protection, she swaddled herself in the mauve quilt her grandmother gave her decades earlier. She had...

What happens when a government, while attempting to address a health inequity in one community, creates an inequity in another? That...

In truth, the signs of danger and harbingers of the assault on sanity, truth, democracy and the U.S. Constitution were glaringly present...

No one should be surprised that the DC Contract Appeals Board (CAB) has found that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration violated city...

DC Council member Charles Allen’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held a public roundtable with advocates and experts last...

Billie Shepperd’s voice is cracking every now and then. Her words are laden heavily with emotion. She is straining to contain her anger....

The process seems to have been manipulated,” said one highly placed government source.

DC officials have been pontificating about racial equity. Their handling of the Mediciad managed care contract suggest they are all talk.

“If you utilize race and gender as subcategories, you are shorting women and people of color uniformly,” explained Robert Johnson

"Defund the police" may be a catchy slogan but it ignores the reality of life in urban centers.