The Barras Report Blog

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...

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

“We need a blueprint for a new society,” author, literary and political activist E. Ethelbert Miller told me when I proposed last year...

Masks, Trumpets, Gris, Gris and Us what of women like us undefinable women taught to love men feverishly be August humidity and fried...

Talk about inopportune. Here we are in the middle of tax season, the middle of budget season, and the middle of a public health emergency...

The 2020 elections taught us that our democracy is both strong and fragile. This is the time to shore it up with the For the People Act...

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...

AS I read Arnie Graf’s wonderful book, Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing (ACTA 2020), I was reminded of the years I...

The District Task Force on Jails & Justice may have begun its work “examining questions” about building a new correctional facility in...

Donald Trump’s defenders are shameless. And that makes them dangerous. It has only been a month since a mob enraged by Trump’s lies about...

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Day feels complicated this year. We have new reasons to celebrate. High on that list is the election of Rev....

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...