The Barras Report Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...