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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 .
I am ashamed of this nation. I know you want to do the right thing, and Republicans are tying your hands, but please don’t call this a “centrist plan.”
The president’s lies and fearmongering don’t lead to inevitable decline. We can push back.
In this moment a radical reimagining of America is needed, and possible, but only if the voices of those struggling in the streets are heard.
Republicans who refuse to restore the Voting Rights Act while decorating the grave of Representative John Lewis with flowery words testify against themselves.
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.
We are coming together to demand that our elected officials dismantle the system that could destroy us all.
The past is nowhere to return to. As the pandemic changes the world, may we come together to demand that it change for the better.
“May we who are merely inconvenienced remember those whose lives are at stake. May we who have no risk factors remember those most vulnerable.”
The Trump administration is happy to find ways to blame black and brown Americans for getting sick.
The pandemic lays bare how American politicians have ignored the past and its injustices. It’s time for repentance, not just prayer.
The Trump administration’s budget proposal, released Monday, lays bare the lies he told during the State of the Union.
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