DC Ward 8's fight for its future
The challenge in Ward 8 right now is comparable, in my mind, to the one confronting millions of mostly rural citizens nationally, who...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 7
- 8 min
Winning round one at DC’s Gallery Place
WHEN you have an opponent by the short hairs and they know it, gloating is in poor taste. Proper etiquette for the victor is to “smile,...
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Ben Jealous
- Oct 1, 2023
- 2 min
The Clean Energy Transition Must Be a Just Transition
WHEN General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford – the “Big Three” American automakers – were close to extinction 15 years ago, their workers and...
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jonetta rose barras
- Sep 25, 2023
- 6 min
What's the Problem with DC AG Brian Schwalb?
DURING the past month, I have heard that question multiple times from people across DC who are not satisfied with AG Brian Schwalb’s...
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jonetta rose barras
- Sep 25, 2023
- 7 min
Ruth Simmons’ hardscrabble journey to elite higher education
WHEN the galley for Ruth J. Simmons’ memoir — Up Home: One Girl’s Journey — arrived in my mailbox a few months ago, I couldn’t wait to...
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Ben Jealous
- Sep 25, 2023
- 3 min
Our Public Lands Need More Land and a More Diverse Public
ON Saturday, environmental advocate Bill Vanderberg was where he is most Saturdays during the year – leading volunteers maintaining...
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Ben Jealous
- Jul 2, 2023
- 3 min
A Deep South Governor’s Race to Watch
A year in which there are only three races for governor’s seats, all in the Deep South, wouldn’t normally create a lot of political...
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- Jul 1, 2023
- 5 min
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
Editor's note: The Supreme Court 6-3 ruling made public on June 29 striking down affirmative action programs and policies at two...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jul 1, 2023
- 6 min
Should reparations focus on radical economic 21st century construction?
“CLOSE the racial wealth gap” was the phrase du jour last week at DC Council Chair Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie’s public hearing on the...
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Ben Jealous
- Jun 19, 2023
- 3 min
Big Chance to Cut Climate Pollution from Big Trucks
THE interstates built in the 1950s and 1960s killed the vitality of the communities where people of color and the poor lived, from...
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Ben Jealous
- Jun 6, 2023
- 3 min
New Fire, Familiar Injustice
A lightning strike and a small fire are all it took this weekend to remind residents in South Louisiana – across much of the Gulf Coast...
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Ben Jealous
- May 30, 2023
- 3 min
Under Controlled Coal-Fired Power Plants Still Threaten Americans’ Health
TATUM is an East Texas town of about 1,300 people, closer to Shreveport than Dallas. It’s on the north shore of Martin Lake. Across the...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 13, 2023
- 5 min
Budget Madness in DC, Part2
SOME people have become accustomed to vote trading in national and local politics. There is the belief that such transactions lead to...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 13, 2023
- 7 min
BUDGET MADNESS IN DC, PART 1
THE $19.7 billion Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and Financial Plan submitted earlier this year by Mayor Muriel Bowser demonstrates her...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 10, 2023
- 7 min
Time for an overdue talk among DC officials about the government’s core mission
OVER the past several weeks, the political and public policy rhetoric in the District has seemed like a five-alarm fire — the heat and...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 17, 2023
- 8 min
Can DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson handle the coming collisions over policy, politics and money?
WARD 3 State Board of Education member Eric Goulet publicly asked on Twitter whether DC Council Chair Phil Mendelson has become...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 17, 2023
- 7 min
The Radical Historian Among Us
LONG before Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) shouted the phrase “Black Power” in 1966; before James Brown, sans his famous processed...
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Ben Jealous
- Jan 28, 2023
- 3 min
Disposing of Division, Not People and Places
AS an organizer who’s spent much of my life fighting for civil rights and access to the ballot box, I reflect on the work and words of...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 28, 2023
- 7 min
A City Traumatized By Crime
I am on the telephone listening to my granddaughter discuss the week’s events. Normally she is a confident, self-assured, sassy high...
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