The Barras Report Blog

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

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...

A confluence of timely reports, including Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety by the DC Police reform Commission and pending...

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...

President Joe Biden has nominated extraordinary women of color to high-level jobs in the Biden-Harris administration. Many of them are...

There are unquestionable and discernible signs, in my view, that DC’s political season has already begun — although the next election...

The District has been unable to determine how at-risk children are performing in public schools because critical data “on attendance,...

On Jan. 29, Barbara and David Ehrlich parked their cars and headed towards the Howard University clinic. It was a long walk for the...

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...

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

“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...

The 2020 elections taught us that our democracy is both strong and fragile. This is the time to shore it up with the For the People Act...

A smile raced across my face when I learned that a lawsuit had been filed against former President Donald J. Trump for inciting the...

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...

Donald Trump’s defenders are shameless. And that makes them dangerous. It has only been a month since a mob enraged by Trump’s lies about...