STILL BROKEN: DC's Child Welfare System, Part 1
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jonetta rose barras
May 13, 20216 min read
DC Deputy Mayor Wayne Turnage's Medicaid Soap Opera
WHAT happens when DC’s deputy mayor for health and human services seems determined to steer parts of a multibillion-dollar contract to a...
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Ben Jealous
Apr 10, 20213 min read
Justice is on Trial in the George Floyd Murder Case; Justice is on trial in the United States
THE murder trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has begun, ten months after George Floyd died in the street with Chauvin’s...
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jonetta rose barras
Apr 10, 20214 min read
THE PANDEMIC: MIND AWAKENING AND ALTERING, PART 2
If it is true that “none of us are ourselves,” as Isabel Wilkerson declares in her book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” the...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Women’s History Month Is the Right Time to Raise the Minimum Wage
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...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Renewing the Call for a Commission on Truth, Healing and Transformation
“We need a blueprint for a new society,” author, literary and political activist E. Ethelbert Miller told me when I proposed last year...
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jonetta rose barras
Mar 2, 20211 min read
IN HONOR OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
Masks, Trumpets, Gris, Gris and Us what of women like us undefinable women taught to love men feverishly be August humidity and fried...
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jonetta rose barras
Feb 23, 20216 min read
THE NAACP AND U.S. REP. BENNIE THOMPSON TAKE UP THE FIGHT
A smile raced across my face when I learned that a lawsuit had been filed against former President Donald J. Trump for inciting the...
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jonetta rose barras
Feb 16, 20219 min read
THE WOMAN UNDER THE BED
As if a baby needing physical protection, she swaddled herself in the mauve quilt her grandmother gave her decades earlier. She had...
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jonetta rose barras
Nov 26, 20201 min read
Artist as Change Agents
This interview with Author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller is part of the occasional series: Conversations with jonetta Artist...
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