Hello, Sean Morrow here. I hope you enjoyed season two of Who Is the podcast from Now This.

If you listened to our last episode, you heard Reverend Dr. William Barber the second.

Reverend Dr. Barber is a major civil rights leader, organizer, and also a certified genius.

He got the MacArthur Grant in 2018, which is unofficially called

the Genius Grant. Barber is the founder of Repairers of the Breach and runs the revitalized

modern version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign. You're going to hear

something a little different today, my full, unedited conversation with Reverend Barber,

for a different perspective on politics and power.

Well, my name is Reverend Dr. Williams, A. Barber II.

Living Goldsburg, North Carolina, pastor Greenlee Christian Church.

I'm the national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, National Call for Moral Revival,

and President Senior Electives with Paris, the Breach.

I described most of all as a pastor and a moral activist and dealing with issues of civil rights and poverty ever since I was 17 years old, some 40 years ago.

My focus as a theologian is public policy and public theology,

and how we must have fusion coalitions of people made up of every race, creak, and sexuality, geography to address

five interlocking injustices, systemic racism in all of its formats, systemic poverty, ecological

devastation denial of health care, the war economy, and the false law narrative of religious

nationalism.

When we started for people's campaign three years ago,

my co-chair, Reverend Dr. Lee Steele Harris, we started.

We now have 43 coordinating committees across the country's state coordinating.

In June of 2020, we had a mass four people's assembly at Marl March on Washington on June 20th, digitally.

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