Photo by Beau Finley.
- Plans for Marion Barry’s funeral still being finalized, but a spokesperson promises it will be “big, epic, monumental, just the way he would have liked it.” [Post, Washingtonian]
- Jonetta Rose Barras: “But that career, the one that will be praised by nearly everyone over the coming days and weeks, was built on the backs of the city’s most vulnerable people; they were the ones who also suffered most.” [Post]
- David Carr: “He was, as it turned out, not a very good mayor, yet again. But he was a very good politician. Among the best.” [Washingtonian]
- Jack Shafer: “To be in Barry’s proximity could be better than drinking the elixir of life.” [CityPaper]
- Elissa Silverman: “I will always think of Barry as a voice for the voiceless in our city, and his advocacy was authentic.” [CityPaper]
- Post editorial board: “All in this city who knew him over his half-century here ought to mourn the great promise lost over the course of a life that conformed in many ways to the dictionary definition of ancient tragedy, and recall with admiration the man who helped knock down barriers that are almost unimaginable to those of a younger generation.” [Post]
- Courtland Milloy: “Such vulnerability endeared Barry to the multitudes.”
- David Remnick: “Give him this: Marion Barry was the most vivid local politician in the history of the District of Columbia.” [NewYorker]
- Fierce fight for Barry’s seat expected. [Post]
- Barry’s Ward 8 Turkey giveaway will go on as planned. [NBC4]
- This Day in DCist: Wizards owner Abe Pollin died at age 85.
