William Barber
Reproductive Rights on Trial with Skye Perryman
By Ray Kirstein — April 20, 2024
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Skye Perryman of Democracy Forward about the mifepristone and EMTALA cases before the Supreme Court and the challenges to reproductive and religious freedom they pose. Paul also gets details on the Freedom Rising Conference from organizer Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis.
‘God & Country’ shirks its opportunity to confront mainstream evangelicalism
By Tyler Huckabee — February 13, 2024
(RNS) — The documentary largely fails to explore its porous boundary with Christian nationalism.
William Barber on recruiting low-wage voters, Biden’s record on poverty
By Kathryn Post — January 19, 2024
(RNS) — 'If you leave this many people in poverty and low wealth, you open up the door for demagogues and people who will use people’s fears and hurts against them,' said the Rev. William Barber.
March for Our Lives, faith leaders call on Florida lawmakers to ‘cease and desist’
By Jack Jenkins — September 15, 2023
(RNS) — 'Instead of focusing on and addressing the real issues, you spend time promoting hate and division, contrary to our deepest religious values,' reads a letter from activists addressed to Florida lawmakers.
For embattled TN lawmakers, liberal faith movements were a training ground
By Jack Jenkins — April 17, 2023
(RNS) — '(I) grew up in the moral movement with Rev. Barber and the Poor People's Campaign,' said Rep. Justin Jones.
William Barber launches new center at Yale, will retire from church
By Jack Jenkins — December 19, 2022
(RNS) — The Rev. William Barber said the center's goal is to 'prepare a new generation' to create 'a just society both in the academy and in the streets.'
With Warnock’s win, Democrats eye faith as a pathway to victory in the South
By Jack Jenkins — December 9, 2022
(RNS) — Once a faith-based activist arrested for protesting in the US Capitol, Warnock stands to elevate the various causes of the religious left — especially voting rights.
Faith leaders, labor advocates push for White House meeting on poverty
By Jack Jenkins — June 6, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Joe Biden has yet to agree to the summit with the Poor People’s Campaign, despite endorsing the group while running for office and speaking at their events.
Faith leaders arrested while protesting in support of Build Back Better bill
By Jack Jenkins — December 13, 2021
(RNS) — 'We've come to help you get free — but if you don't want to get free you're going to get your foot the hell off our necks,' the Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, said of politicians who oppose the legislation.
Hundreds arrested at Capitol while protesting for voting rights, minimum wage
By Jack Jenkins — August 2, 2021
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Monday's action on the Hill constituted one of the largest mass-arrest nonviolent protests at the Capitol in recent memory.
Hundreds gather at historic Tulsa church’s prayer wall
By Peter Smith — June 1, 2021
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — As the ceremony came to an end, participants put their hands on the prayer wall along the side of the sanctuary while soloist Santita Jackson sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Poor People’s Campaign meets with Joe Manchin, vows to protest for $15 minimum wage
By Jack Jenkins — February 18, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We are trying to get (Manchin) to live up to what he was told when he was a kid: If you have all these blessings, then you can share your blessings,’ said Jean Evansmore, a West Virginia resident.
The Rev. William Barber II to headline interfaith inauguration prayer service
By Jack Jenkins — January 19, 2021
(RNS) — Patti LaBelle and Josh Groban will offer musical performances.
1,000-plus faith leaders call for ‘free and fair election’
By Elana Schor — October 27, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1,000 clergy members, religious scholars and other faith-based advocates have signed onto a unique statement that supports a comprehensive path to “a free and fair election” and urges leaders to heed the verdict of “legitimate election results” regardless of who wins in November.
Black clergy testify to outrage and hope in demonstrations across Washington
By Jack Jenkins — June 15, 2020
(RNS) — Citing recent killings by police as well as the ravages of the pandemic, leaders of several faiths called on the government to take responsibility.
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