D.C. Council member Marion Barry is driving legislation to give ex-offenders legal safeguards against employment discrimination, a proposal that unnerves some in the business community and several activists covered by similar protections. Hoping to jump-start a proposal that has floated for a decade, Barry (D-Ward has been reaching out to council colleagues to gauge interest in adding people charged with a crime to the city’s Human Rights Act. Read full article > >

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Marion Barry seeks anti-bias protection for those with ‘past arrests and convictions’

The son of D.C. Council member Marion Barry was sentenced to 18 months of supervised probation for drug possession Tuesday, avoiding prison time after pleading guilty in July. D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin originally sentenced Marion Christopher Barry, 31, to six months in prison for a felony PCP charge and 90 days for a misdemeanor marijuana charge but suspended the sentences and ordered Barry to drug and grief counseling. Barry’s mother, Effi, died from acute myeloid leukemia at 63 in 2007; he was arrested in May. Read full article > >

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Barry son sentenced to 18 months’ probation in drug case

Long after Marion Barry was elected mayor in 1978 and moved from the 1200 block of E Street NE, the neighborhood was dominated by African Americans. But not anymore.

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Marion Barry’s old block: a D.C. neighborhood’s racial evolution