The Barras Report Blog

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...

As cities and states prepare to reopen schools in 2021, the issue of mental health services become extremely important. In 2019, jonetta...

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

This interview with Author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller is part of the occasional series: Conversations with jonetta Artist...

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

Any Trump nominee would have been a threat to the causes for which Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg devoted her life.