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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is co-author, with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, of The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Fear and Division The Nation .
Rev. Barber is the architect of the Forward Together Moral Monday Movement, president of the North Carolina NAACP and pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro. He is also president of Repairers of the Breach . He is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
This Martin Luther King Day, we should remember that when we stand up and fight back, the seemingly indomitable giants of white supremacy can come down.
These Christian nationalists serve only the wealthiest Americans and take every opportunity to hurt the poor.
Two prominent ministers make a Christian case for government intervention in economic inequality.
Elizabeth Warren wasn’t attacking Jeff Sessions’s character; she was using King’s observations to expose his support for racist policies.
In forcing Pat McCrory out of office, we proved that we do not have to concede the battle in the South.
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.
In North Carolina, we have heard this before, and lived through the bloody consequences of white terrorist rhetoric.
Our moral movement is spreading out from North Carolina, one powerful gathering at a time.
We cannot allow those who would profit off our pain to cause us to hate.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and his allies are bringing back sex-panic tactics that Jesse Helms perfected decades ago.
The Southern strategy created an us-against-them politics with a perverse idea of morality.
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