La Shawn Barber is the senior editor of Black Community News, CURE’s news blog. She joined the CURE team in 2014.
She began blogging in 2003 about faith and politics when blogs were still new. She began writing professionally in 2004 and added blog consulting to the mix in 2005, helping clients create blogs. Her work has appeared in the Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Washington Times, National Jurist, Christianity Today, Christian Research Journal, and other publications. She wrote a weekly column for WORLD online, a Christian publication, for five years. La Shawn has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, and the BBC.
La Shawn is an independent conservative and lives in South Carolina.