Marion Christopher Barry, 36, the sole child of the late former D.C. mayor Marion Barry, is dead of a drug overdose.  He was discovered by his girlfriend, who brought him to George Washington University Hospital, where he expired.  He has no close family survivors, as his father and birth mother pre-deceased him. With his death, a would-be Democrat political dynasty has come to an end, for Christopher Barry unsuccessfully attempted to gain election to the D.C. City Council.  His father’s enduring popularity with the capital’s electorate failed to pass on to the heir. The arc of the story of the Barry Family Saga begins with a justifiable fight for civil rights in the South and left-wing activism as the first head of SNCC, soars to political heights as city councilman and mayor (four terms, in two separate sequences), and then, tragically (in the classical Greek sense of being undone by hubris) declines into criminality and depravity, captured on...(Read Full Post)