"We need a movement to engage poor people who haven’t voted because they’ve never imagined the system could work for them."
William J. Barber II
Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He is author of We Are Called to Be a Movement.
Republicans often claim to care about Christian values, but in attacking Biden's plan for student loan relief, they are ignoring the teachings of the Bible.
Rev. William Barber writes that voting restrictions disproportionately harm Black voters and voters of color, but Martin Luther King Jr. organized for a political system where the Black, white and brown masses could vote together for leaders who serve the common good.
Rev. William Barber writes about how the Christmas story applies to politics today, explaining that the shepherds in first-century Palestine were the low-income workers of their day and they too were longing the justice that would be good news to all the people.
Any effort to defend democracy must be clear that calls for "election integrity" are symptoms of the chaos that lies about voter fraud have created.
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William Barber and Bernice King write that we must reclaim voting rights as a moral issue and stand together to demand the passing of federal legislation to enshrine these rights.
Rev. William Barber says a $15 minimum wage, as proposed under Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan, would be a critical step toward racial justice.
Read the full text of William Barber's inaugural sermon as Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States.
Their map of states where the highest percentage of Americans embrace Christian nationalism–and their leaders use "pro-life" rhetoric–matches up almost exactly with the current map of where COVID cases are surging.
To write a bill in the time of coronavirus that includes $500 billion for the already wealth and greedy is evil. Here's why.
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'The opioid crisis reveals that systemic violence never just hurts one group of people,' writes Rev. Barber
Farr has been the lead attorney in a series of legislative efforts to suppress political participation by African Americans in the state.
We march for black lives and fair wages — and against the 'triplets of evil'
Trump has complained about media bias “rigging” the election against him. Now, a new boogeyman has emerged: voter fraud.
Across the country, more than half of black workers and nearly 60% of Latino workers are paid less than $15 per hour.
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