D.C.’s ‘mayor for life’ isn’t fazed by latest controversy
Marion Barry says he isn’t a political survivor. Through the convictions, a bundle of insensitive remarks, the D.C. Council’s censure of him, a prison term and a 1977 shooting, Barry has remained the capital’s most prolific — and often derided — voice.
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