The Ark of the Moral Universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

I'm sure you've probably heard that phrase before.

These words delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in August of 1967 are inspiring, even

when that arc seems to be bending further away from justice, not closer to it.

In most days, I'm skeptical.

You know, I want to have hope and I want to have faith, but our world just doesn't bend

on hope if faith alone.

It takes work.

Just before he died in 1968, Dr. King had begun the work of the Poor People's Campaign,

a multiracial coalition fighting for federal funding for guaranteed annual income, programs

to end poverty and housing for the poor.

Dr. King was assassinated before that work could be completed.

But five decades later, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II has taken up the mantle.

Bishop Barber is the president of a nonprofit Repairs of the Breach, and he's co-chair

of a new Poor People's Campaign, which he leads alongside the Reverend Dr. Liz Theo Harris.

A powerful new movement is rising across America.

From the Mississippi Delta to the Apache Stronghold, from the homeless encampments of Washington

to the cold fields of West Virginia, we are the 140 million poor and low-wealth people

in this country, and we are building the Poor People's Campaign, a national call for

more revival.

I'm Tremayne Lee, and this is Into America.

This weekend, on Saturday, June 20th, the Poor People's Campaign is hosting the mass

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