william barber
William Barber and Liz Theoharis take the Poor People’s Campaign on the road
The campaign is confronting four interlocking issues: systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation.
Niebuhrians left and right
Religious leaders as different as William Barber and Russell Moore reflect Reinhold Niebuhr's insights.
An enduring narrative
We are called into liberation—a freedom that sees not our value as consumers but the dignity inherent in our humanity.
Moral Mondays leader launches campaign in spirit of Martin Luther King
William Barber II has left the North Carolina NAACP to lead a new Poor People's Campaign.
Moral Mondays Illinois goes directly to jail
Our arrest happened much faster than we anticipated. As we unfurled our banner based on the “unjust scales” of Amos 8, the police moved in.
We had gathered at a magnificent skyscraper in Chicago’s financial district for a meeting with Ken Griffin, Illinois’s richest citizen and top financial contributor to Governor Bruce Rauner.
Winning souls to the polls: A fight against North Carolinas voting barriers
In North Carolina, civil rights leaders are focused on the one political issue that undergirds all others: the right to vote.
My daughter's Moral Monday field trip
On Monday evening, my daughter and I joined several hundred others outside the Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina. We were there for the latest in a series of Moral Monday rallies organized to oppose the legislature’s policies toward (among other things) social programs, education, environmental legislation, and voting rights.
The statehouse is a solid 90-minute drive from our house, so it makes for a long evening on a school night.
The wrong question, but still the right answer
Early this week, the same video kept popping up on my Facebook wall. It's from a press conference in Greensboro, at which North Carolina NAACP president William Barber (whom the Century profiled here) made a crucial point: "How do you feel, personally, about same-sex marriage?" is the wrong question. The right question is about equal rights under the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
By midweek, my Facebook wall was overwhelmed with comments (and links) about President Obama's decision to give the right answer to the wrong question.
Disobedience for racial justice
William Barber has a way of getting people arrested. Since he took
charge of the NAACP in North Carolina, he's been inspiring
followers—black and white—to engage in acts of civil disobedience.