MWQ1YzM5YjYyZGI2NzMxYzQ2ZTg1MDQxMTM5OTk5YzFjMGUzMTRmZmYzZWZj It started small, just 17 of us marching into the Capitol to bear witness to the immoral attacks on the most vulnerable residents in the state. MmM1ZGE5ZTRjNjQzOWJmY2ZjMjI5NGFlZmYxZTkxNDcxODVhM2NlMjc5ZDgy v3Styles: true, It began a few days before Easter 2013, recalled Barber, pastor at the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). NTM2NWM1MTNlOWIyYmYyYTUwZTVmNjhiODk3ZTRhMTQwM2JjODRkNWEwNGIw William J. Barber II delivered the homily at the inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, January 21. When you look today and see so-called white evangelicalism, you have to understand they are powerful, but they are not the majority of religiosity in this country. The initiatives he has helped to start the Moral Mondays series of protests and the Martin Luther King Jr.-inspired Poor Peoples Campaign have motivated legions across the country to engage in demonstrations and peaceful civil disobedience in support of racial, economic and environmental justice as well as the protection of voting rights, among other issues as much moral as political. Our democracy is hurting. When those two things came together, it gave space for people like Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was a segregationist, to step out of his normal pattern of politics into a new way. Barber says that Moral Mondays broad appeal is reflected in state Republicans sagging popularity: A February poll found that just 36 percent of North Carolina voters approved of Gov. Magazines, Digital You have reached your limit of free articles. Everything we won, people had to start winning in the midst of opposition that looked like it was overwhelming. The Rev. William Barber dropped the mic - The Washington Post "related-stories-content-list--432705", Dr. William J. Barber II took the Moeser Auditorium stage to deliver the 2017 Weil Lecture on American Citizenship on October 11, Yara Allen, historian, signer, and musician, led the audience in a moving call and response inspired by a town hall meeting for people harmed by coal ash contamination. bindComponentToDiv( With North Carolina Democrats still in disarray following their drubbing in 2012, some progressives are looking to Barber to lead them out of the wilderness.