The Barras Report Blog

“This is going to be the Super Bowl of elections,” predicted Rodney “Red” Grant, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent at-large DC...

As the audience inside the Woman’s National Democratic Club on New Hampshire Avenue NW waited last November for Ward 2 DC Councilmember...

DURING the past month, I have heard that question multiple times from people across DC who are not satisfied with AG Brian Schwalb’s...

WHEN the galley for Ruth J. Simmons’ memoir — Up Home: One Girl’s Journey — arrived in my mailbox a few months ago, I couldn’t wait to...

LONG before Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture) shouted the phrase “Black Power” in 1966; before James Brown, sans his famous processed...

I am on the telephone listening to my granddaughter discuss the week’s events. Normally she is a confident, self-assured, sassy high...

DC voters began receiving their ballots for the November general election this week. The contests for mayor, DC Council chair and council...

DON’T expect me to mince words here. The DC government and, thus, the entire city, particularly low-income residents, have been drowning...

“[T]HE highway was lined with yellow wildflowers that danced from their roots every time a car drove by. Smoke seeped up into the sky...

Judith Sandalow sat inside the square — the virtual infrastructure made ubiquitous by the coronavirus pandemic as we’ve sought to remain...

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

“We need a blueprint for a new society,” author, literary and political activist E. Ethelbert Miller told me when I proposed last year...

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...

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...

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

DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Joe Biden needs an aggressive agenda to end the violence and racism.

In the middle of a deadly global health pandemic, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has decided to shake up the city’s health care delivery system.

Who can save DC's November general election?