Rev. William J. Barber II | White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Where:
When:
- Monday June 10th 2024, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
In conversation with Matthew Desmond
A Protestant minister, professor, social activist, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, Reverend William J. Barber II is president of the nationally recognized Repairers of the Breach and the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement. A former president of the North Carolina NAACP and currently a member of the board of directors of the national NAACP, he will lead the Poor People’s Campaign’s March on Washington in June 2024. Barber is also a MacArthur fellow, the author of the books Forward Together and The Third Reconstruction, and has been featured in a wide array of media outlets. Written with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, founder of the School for Conversion and assistant director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, White Poverty examines the ways in which a greater understanding of the universal nature of poverty could decrease racism.
A Protestant minister, professor, social activist, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, Reverend William J. Barber II is president of the nationally recognized Repairers of the Breach and the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement. A former president of the North Carolina NAACP and currently a member of the board of directors of the national NAACP, he will lead the Poor People’s Campaign’s March on Washington in June 2024. Barber is also a MacArthur fellow, the author of the books Forward Together and The Third Reconstruction, and has been featured in a wide array of media outlets. Written with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, founder of the School for Conversion and assistant director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, White Poverty examines the ways in which a greater understanding of the universal nature of poverty could decrease racism.
