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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
- Jul 1, 2023
- 3 min
Good Jobs Will Come from a Cleaner Economy
I traveled recently from Baltimore, the city where my mother grew up, to Portland, Maine, where my dad did. It’s easy for many to see...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jun 19, 2023
- 6 min
Slavery: All over us, All over America
Before my friend and activist Tony De Pass died of colon cancer, he often boasted, during frequent and blistering critiques about the...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jul 10, 2022
- 7 min
Mail In Voting and The Breach of the Civic Culture
“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That.”...
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jonetta rose barras
- May 8, 2022
- 6 min
The hijacking of the DC Office of the Attorney General
ANY District of Columbia resident or leader who cares about the city’s political independence and the ability of its legislature to...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jan 8, 2022
- 31 min
Children at risk: City’s child fatality reviews don’t prevent future deaths as intended
The DC Line conducted a six-month investigation, funded by SpotlightDC: Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism, in pursuit of the...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 14, 2021
- 7 min
Is the fight at the DC arts commission about race or the hustle?
DURING the recent kickoff for his mayoral campaign, Ward 8 DC Council member Trayon White led his supporters in a chant: “We are going to...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 14, 2021
- 7 min
Walter Smith's 12-year Battle with Care First
The legal battle fought by Walter Smith and his organization DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice to ensure a regional nonprofit...
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jonetta rose barras
- Sep 6, 2021
- 6 min
IS ANYONE INVESTIGATING CORRUPTION IN DC?
WHEN Mayor Muriel Bowser issued her recent order declaring a “Health Care Resources Emergency,” she tore a page straight from former...
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jonetta rose barras
- Jun 27, 2021
- 5 min
Time for a bolder affordable housing approach in DC
EARLIER this month, the DC Council begins scrutinizing Mayor Muriel Bowser’s $17.5 billion Fiscal Year 2022 Budget and Financial Plan,...
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Ben Jealous
- Apr 2, 2021
- 3 min
RACISM AND ITS DEADLY COUSINS
What does it say about our country when we don’t have time to absorb the impact of one mass shooting before news of the next one comes...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 2, 2021
- 5 min
THE PANDEMIC: Mind Awakening and Altering, Part 1
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...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 9, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Feb 23, 2021
- 6 min
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
- Jan 15, 2021
- 6 min
An Assault and An Insurrection
In truth, the signs of danger and harbingers of the assault on sanity, truth, democracy and the U.S. Constitution were glaringly present...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 26, 2020
- 6 min
DO BLACK LIVES MATTER TO THE DC GOVERNMENT?
Billie Shepperd’s voice is cracking every now and then. Her words are laden heavily with emotion. She is straining to contain her anger....
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