by Rev. William Barber | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Dear Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump, Your campaign, like the leadership of our Legislature and Governor, does not represent the politics of Lincoln, the call of justice, or the ethics of Biblical evangelicalism. Instead, your campaign presents an...
by Rev. William Barber | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Progressive Vision
In 1950, fifteen years before the Selma-to-Montgomery march, William Faulkner, one of the South’s greatest authors, wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In 2015, as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Faulkner’s insight is as true as...
by Rev. William Barber | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Progressive Vision
DURHAM, NC: Now that the 2014 Midterm election results are in for North Carolina, the North Carolina NAACP and Forward Together Moral Movement have released the following statement: The diverse coalition that makes up the Forward Together Moral Monday movement came...
by Rev. William Barber | Jun 19, 2014 | Progressive Vision, The New Populism
How do we build a people’s movement? We start with vision. Prophetic moral vision seeks to penetrate despair, so that we can believe in and embrace new futures. It does not ask if the vision can be implemented—questions of implementation are of no consequence until...
by Rev. William Barber | Jun 3, 2014 | Minimum Wage
Recently, I marched with McDonald's workers from three dozen cities to the company's corporate headquarters outside of Chicago. After they refused to leave the corporate campus of the fast-food giant with its $5.6 billion in profits last year, 101 workers were...
