A MEDITATION ON CRIME AND VIOLENCE
TWO seemingly ordinary people—one black, the other white--collided on the streets of Minneapolis in May 2020. It was in the middle of a...
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Ben Jealous
- Apr 19, 2021
- 3 min
We Urgently Need Kristen Clarke at the Justice Department
Kristen Clarke is a brilliant lawyer and Americans would be lucky to have her working for us. President Joe Biden has nominated Clarke to...
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 19, 2021
- 5 min
Wishing and Hoping: Can the DCGOP Declare Victory in 2022?
Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....
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jonetta rose barras
- Apr 10, 2021
- 4 min
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
- Apr 9, 2021
- 3 min
FOLLOW THAT STORY: Education Malpractice
Imagine going to a physician with a complaint about an ailment you have been experiencing for several weeks. Without examining your...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 5, 2021
- 5 min
THE NEVER-ENDING HEALTH CARE CONTRACTING FIASCO
THE average DC resident reading the Department of Health Care Finance Support Act of 2021 as proposed by Mayor Muriel Bowser could be...
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jonetta rose barras
- Mar 2, 2021
- 1 min
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
- Mar 2, 2021
- 6 min
DC chief financial officer brings new meaning to ‘When the going gets tough … ’
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...
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jonetta rose barras
- Feb 23, 2021
- 6 min
DC's Abuse of Women Homeowners
WHEN nine Black women were accepted into DC’s Home Purchase Assistance Program for first-time homebuyers, they believed they were moving...
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jonetta rose barras
- Feb 16, 2021
- 4 min
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND BUILDING THE CIVIC CULTURE
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...
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jonetta rose barras
- Feb 12, 2021
- 6 min
Beyond Defunding the Police
The District Task Force on Jails & Justice may have begun its work “examining questions” about building a new correctional facility in...
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jonetta rose barras
- Feb 5, 2021
- 6 min
Getting to the core of CORE and vaccinations
What happens when a government, while attempting to address a health inequity in one community, creates an inequity in another? That...
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jonetta rose barras
- Dec 28, 2020
- 1 min
Trauma and Academic Achievement
As cities and states prepare to reopen schools in 2021, the issue of mental health services become extremely important. In 2019, jonetta...
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jonetta rose barras
- Dec 28, 2020
- 6 min
The Coronavirus Pandemic and Violence
DC Council member Charles Allen’s Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held a public roundtable with advocates and experts last...
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jonetta rose barras
- Nov 26, 2020
- 1 min
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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jonetta rose barras
- Oct 3, 2020
- 7 min
On Tuna
T-word revealed unto us that #BlackLivesMatter protesters had been throwing cans of this Bumble Bee brand tuna at police officers.
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