To hear Marion Barry tell it, his latest comeback is more George Washington than Robert Downey Jr. The one-time Washington, D.C. mayor, long ago dubbed Mayor for Life for serving three terms, leaving ...

There were nights in high school and college when I'd cry myself to sleep over the confusion and frustration I felt over my sexuality. As with every other moment at that time, I'd force my tears to ...

Marion Barry Jr., the Mississippi sharecropper’s son and civil rights activist who served three terms as mayor of the District of Columbia, survived a drug arrest and jail sentence, and then came back ...

A new mural honoring the life and legacy of former Mayor and D.C. Council member Marion Barry will be unveiled in Northwest on Saturday morning, a decade after his death. Cora Masters Barry, the wife ...

Marion Barry, Washington’s ‘Mayor for Life,’ Even After Prison, Dies at 78 Mr. Barry was a flamboyant and polarizing mayor of the nation’s capital who went to prison on a cocaine charge and then made ...

The film crew evidently spent years following Marion Barry http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/barry/barry.htm around, not in search of the ...

A North Carolina hog farmer and a Democrat-turned-Republican, he helped strip Mayor Marion Barry of his fiscal powers as Washington’s deficits swelled in the late ’90s. By Robert D. McFadden American ...