The Barras Report Blog

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...

Sen. Ted Cruz is a shameless liar. And he isn’t even a very good one. Witness his latest dishonest defense of Georgia’s new voter...

WHAT happens when DC’s deputy mayor for health and human services seems determined to steer parts of a multibillion-dollar contract to a...

A coalition of organizations led by some of the most powerful Black women in America this week called for the immediate vote on the...

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...

Kristen Clarke is a brilliant lawyer and Americans would be lucky to have her working for us. President Joe Biden has nominated Clarke to...

Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....

THE murder trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has begun, ten months after George Floyd died in the street with Chauvin’s...

If it is true that “none of us are ourselves,” as Isabel Wilkerson declares in her book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” the...

Imagine going to a physician with a complaint about an ailment you have been experiencing for several weeks. Without examining your...

What does it say about our country when we don’t have time to absorb the impact of one mass shooting before news of the next one comes...

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...

President Joe Biden has nominated extraordinary women of color to high-level jobs in the Biden-Harris administration. Many of them are...

There are unquestionable and discernible signs, in my view, that DC’s political season has already begun — although the next election...

The District has been unable to determine how at-risk children are performing in public schools because critical data “on attendance,...

On Jan. 29, Barbara and David Ehrlich parked their cars and headed towards the Howard University clinic. It was a long walk for the...

It is time for a maximum push for a new minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has not budged for more than a decade. The cost of living...