It’s Our Time to Stand & Fight
When Rosa Parks saw the killers of Emmett Till acquitted, she got stronger and took on Jim Crow. They shot at her house. They bombed her house and others, but she stood and fought. It's our time to stand and fight.
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church and President of Repairers of the Breach. He has served as president of the North Carolina NAACP, the largest state conference in the South, since 2006 and sits on the National NAACP Board of Directors. A former Mel King Fellow at MIT, he is currently Visiting Professor of Public Theology and Activism at Union Theological Seminary and is a Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary. Rev. Barber is author of the best-selling The Third Reconstruction: How A Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear.