The leader of the Poor People’s Campaign will train the next generation of ‘moral fusion leaders’ at the Yale divinity school
His fight for environmental justice led him to, an area of Louisiana poisoned by industrial pollution and suffering devastating rates of sickness as a result.
While King informs much of his thinking and activism, Barber is unsettled by the way that the great slain civil rights leader is often remembered. He fears the US is encasing King in aspic, stopping his legacy at 1968 and silencing his call for change. He continued: “It’s like turning civil rights into a museum. We don’t need museums, we need a movement. The only way you honor your prophets is when they fall, you pick up the baton and walk the next mile.”
“Living wages was an agenda item at the march, healthcare was an agenda item, fully protecting voter rights was an item. Today we still don’t have a living wage, we still don’t have healthcare for all, and we’re seeing rampant voter suppression. These things need to be matters of deep dissatisfaction,” he said.
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