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Is 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 barras
Aug 21, 20206 min read


What 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 barras
Jul 8, 20205 min read


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

jonetta rose barras
Jun 18, 20201 min read


OPINION: BEYOND PAINTED STREETS AND SLOGANS
SOME of us believe this is the right moment for the creation of a Peace and Reconciliation Commission.

jonetta rose barras
Jun 7, 20207 min read


A PEOPLE IN PAIN AND ANGUISH
People are angry. Their anger also represents a collective soul that is in pain, wondering when will the killing of black people end.

jonetta rose barras
Jun 1, 20207 min read


OPINION: THE TERRITORY AND VISION FIGHT IN THE WARD 4 COUNCIL RACE
It may seem the typical campaign story. Beneath the surface, however, is a political narrative marked by undertones of race, class and ageis

jonetta rose barras
May 18, 20207 min read
Dreaming 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

jonetta rose barras
May 16, 20203 min read
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