The Barras Report Blog

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

Martin Luther King Jr. Day feels complicated this year. We have new reasons to celebrate. High on that list is the election of Rev....

In truth, the signs of danger and harbingers of the assault on sanity, truth, democracy and the U.S. Constitution were glaringly present...

No one should be surprised that the DC Contract Appeals Board (CAB) has found that Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration violated city...

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...

Billie Shepperd’s voice is cracking every now and then. Her words are laden heavily with emotion. She is straining to contain her anger....

Any Trump nominee would have been a threat to the causes for which Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg devoted her life.

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

The process seems to have been manipulated,” said one highly placed government source.

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

DC officials have been pontificating about racial equity. Their handling of the Mediciad managed care contract suggest they are all talk.

DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie is one of three legislators who filed a disapproval resolution for CareFirst managed care contract.

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.

The National Urban League says 3.7 million Black People were not counted in the 2010 Census.

“If you utilize race and gender as subcategories, you are shorting women and people of color uniformly,” explained Robert Johnson

Who can save DC's November general election?

"Defund the police" may be a catchy slogan but it ignores the reality of life in urban centers.

SOME of us believe this is the right moment for the creation of a Peace and Reconciliation Commission.