The Barras Report Blog

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...

Kristen Clarke is a brilliant lawyer and Americans would be lucky to have her working for us. President Joe Biden has nominated Clarke to...

Patrick Mara seems determined that the DC Republican Party and its members will be part of the local political mix this election cycle....

If it is true that “none of us are ourselves,” as Isabel Wilkerson declares in her book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” the...

Imagine going to a physician with a complaint about an ailment you have been experiencing for several weeks. Without examining your...

THE average DC resident reading the Department of Health Care Finance Support Act of 2021 as proposed by Mayor Muriel Bowser could be...

Masks, Trumpets, Gris, Gris and Us what of women like us undefinable women taught to love men feverishly be August humidity and fried...

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 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...

What happens when a government, while attempting to address a health inequity in one community, creates an inequity in another? That...

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...

This interview with Author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller is part of the occasional series: Conversations with jonetta Artist...

T-word revealed unto us that #BlackLivesMatter protesters had been throwing cans of this Bumble Bee brand tuna at police officers.