Controversial “Mayor for Life” Gets Statue

WASHINGTON—Marion Barry was different things to different people.

For more than 40 years, Barry was the best and worst of Washington, D.C., politics as a member of the school board and the City Council and as the controversial mayor of the nation’s capital for four terms. 

He was a convicted crack cocaine user, an abrasive womanizer, but he was also a tenacious fighter for the rights and lives of African-Americans as a civil rights activist and the reigning politician in D.C. for a generation.  

He was an abomination to some Washington residents and a hero to most.

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