You can find me voicing the movement @UniteThePoor over at @NebraskaPPC. We are building the voting power of the poor! Much love.

Today, we are holding #MoralMonday actions across the nation, as a moral response to yesterday’s White House “Rededicate 250" gathering, which promoted a distorted theology being used to justify war and policy violence. Read our press release and join us: breachrepairers.org/get-invo…

Sloan Meek & Suvya Carroll, disability rights advocates from NC, performed music & gave powerful testimony at the 2026 Yale Center for Public Theology & Public Policy Conference. Learn more about their ministry and why we must protect and strengthen social safety net programs!

My message to #NoKingsDay: “We the People” are the power of America. open.substack.com/pub/ourmor…

They silenced the people. Cleared the gallery. Cut the audio. But they can’t silence the truth! We won’t stay silent while extremist lawmakers strip power from officials. Join us #MoralMonday to stop this legislative coup & stand for justice, democracy, & the will of the people.

America has often chosen wrong and had to pay for it later. This week, over 71 million people chose to return Donald Trump to the White House.

TODAY @ 2PM, @RevDrBarber and the @NC_PPC bring the #NCRiseUpRevival Tour to Livingstone College! Join us for a rally to mobilize the 3.4M low-wage and infrequent voters in NC. Let’s make our voices heard! #RiseUpNC #GOTV2024

The NC Rise Up & Revival GOTV Tour continues at Livingstone College TODAY! @RevDrBarber & local leaders are rallying to empower poor and low-wage voters to engage in the fight for healthcare, workers' rights, and voting rights. Be part of the movement! #NCRiseUpRevival #GOTV2024

North Carolina: it’s time to rise up! The #RiseUpRevival GOTV Tour is mobilizing many of the 3.4 million poor & low-income voters. Please join us! #PoorPeoplesCampaign #MoralMovement

#OnThisDay in 1963, when James Meredith walked across the stage to become the first Black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi, NAACP lawyer Constance Baker Motley cheered him. When she was only 15, she decided to become a lawyer, fueled by Abraham Lincoln’s writings and by rejection — turned away from a beach because of her skin color. Her hopes of pursuing such a dream seemed remote, given her family’s meager income. At age 18, she delivered such an impassioned speech that local businessman Clarence W. Blakeslee offered to finance her education. After law school, she began working for the NAACP. In 1950, she wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education, and as a civil rights lawyer, she won nine of the 10 cases she argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. In the first case, she shepherded Meredith’s admission through the maze of courts, eventually getting the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to not only order his 1962 admission, but to find Mississippi Gov. Ross Barnett in contempt. In the years that followed, she continued to break down barriers, becoming the first Black woman elected to the New York State Senate, the first female president of the Manhattan Borough and the first Black female to serve as federal judge, but she would never forget her arduous campaign to win Meredith’s admission, calling it the most thrilling moment in her life. Four years before her death in 2005, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal. mississippitoday.org/2024/08…

#OnThisDay in 1958, inspired by the success in Wichita, Kansas, the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City, led by Clara Luper, a high school history teacher, began sit-ins to challenge the all-white lunch counters. Luper had spent a lifetime fighting segregation. When she attended the University of Oklahoma, she encountered separate restrooms, separation in the classrooms, separate sections in the cafeteria. “In one class a professor told me he had never taught a n—– and had never wanted to,” she recalled. “I moved that wall by staying in his class and working so hard that at the end of the school term, he confessed his sins.” On that day in 1958, she led the students into the Katz drugstore, where they sat down and ordered Cokes. They were refused service, and white customers jeered at them and called them names. Some coughed in their faces, and one child was knocked to the ground. Despite the abuse, they remained nonviolent, and days later, Katz desegregated lunch counters. The protests spread to other restaurants, theaters, hotels and churches. She went on to lead campaigns for Black Americans to have equal banking rights, voting rights, job opportunities and housing. In 1965, she joined the march in Selma, where Alabama troopers attacked the protesters with tear gas and billy clubs. She received a deep cut in her leg from the attack. A year later, she led a march to Lawton, Oklahoma, that ended with the city vowing to eliminate racial discrimination in all public places. In 1969, she worked with the striking sanitation workers, leading to better pay. In all, she was arrested 26 times for her civil rights protests. In 1972, she unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate. Asked by reporters if she could represent white people, she replied, “I can represent White People, Black People, Red People, Yellow People, Brown People, and Polka Dot People. You see, I have lived long enough to know that people are people.” Oklahoma City University gives scholarships each year in her name, aiding financially needy students. She wrote a memoir on the civil rights campaigns titled, “Behold the Walls,” and when she died in 2011, flags flew at half-staff in her honor. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and a street in Oklahoma City now bears her name. mississippitoday.org/2024/08…

“The…Black-only #poverty myth allows politicians to pretend that the system is..working for most people..that if the #economy is growing, we’ll all benefit from a ‘trickle-down’ soon enough.”- WHITE POVERTY x @RevDrBarber @UniteThePoor we say lift from the bottom, everyone rises

The church should be at the forefront of social justice following the example of Jesus who healed everybody he met & never charged a copay. Healthcare should be a human right.

Join the movement to fight poverty! No one should ever die because they can’t afford a $30 co-pay. poorpeoplescampaign.org/mm20…

Voting, organizing for justice, and uplifting our communities all go hand in hand. Vote.org

"I don’t want you to say, 'Honey, I’m behind you.' Well, move, I don’t want you back there. Because you could be 200 miles behind. I want you to say, 'I’m with you.' And we’ll go up this freedom road together." - Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Activist and humanitarian.

We are committed to reach 15 mil low-income voters who have the power to redefine this political moment as America's single-largest swing vote if they unite around an agenda that once again insists that everyone deserves a living wage & voting rights. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

I'm hosting a @theactionnet event: Nebraska Poor People's Campaign Open Meeting. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/neb…

I'm hosting a @theactionnet event: Nebraska Poor People's Campaign Open Meeting. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/neb…

Want to be part of this true Jesus movement? Join @RevDrBarber at our Freedom Rising Conference April 26-28—in NYC or online. Learn more and get your ticket: freedomrising.org

“The language of conservative and liberal does not fit this moment,” ⁦@RevDrBarber⁩ explained. “I don’t care if you are liberal or conservative. I care about whether you stand for the least of these.” captimes.com/opinion/john-ni…