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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTar Heel of the Year: The Rev. William Barber -- activist, advocate and preacher
yes, well deserved!
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article221902085.html
North Carolinas Rev. William J. Barber II is The News & Observers 2018 Tar Heel of the Year. He led the states Moral Monday rallies as leader of the NC NAACP. The MacArthur Fellow has since launched a rebirth of the national Poor Peoples Campaign.
BY MARTHA QUILLIN
DECEMBER 29, 2018 07:00 AM,
Half an hour into a sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington last June about people living on the margins of American society, the Rev. William J. Barber II paused to ask, Can I preach like I would at home for a minute?
He shed his professorial tone and slipped into the more passionate style he uses in his pulpit at the mostly African-American Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro.
Heading into the crescendo of his message of how God uses people who have been rejected by society to bring about revolution, he played his voice like a pipe organ, hitting high notes and low ones, holding some and snapping others off. He boomed. He whispered. He trembled. He sweated.
Asking permission was rhetorical. Barber was going to preach anyway. The truth is, he is at home any time he is talking about the condition of Americas poor, whether thats at a protest at the N.C. Legislative Building in Raleigh, a get-out-the-vote rally in Mississippi, an international conference at the Vatican or a cathedral in the U.S. capital.
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sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)Poverty is not addressed as much as it should be in this country, imo.
Thank you for being a voice for disenfranchised communities of all stripes, Rev. Barber.
(Read the first part, saving the rest for later)
iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)calimary
(81,193 posts)Thats the difference right there.
mountain grammy
(26,613 posts)irisblue
(32,958 posts)gademocrat7
(10,653 posts)Rev.William Barber is a man who walks in grace.
Wounded Bear
(58,629 posts)Well deserved award.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)at the capital in Raleigh, I didn't even know who he was. I'm an atheist, but when he preaches he always cites the best most true message from Jesus imo. You can see him almost every week talking to Joy Reid on her show.
CousinIT
(9,238 posts)Gumboot
(531 posts)A preacher even an atheist can love!