Been Down Into the South: A 21st-Century Freedom Ride (Part 2)
Once you’ve been down into the South, nonviolence isn’t as neat and simple as it seemed when you learned about it in a US history class.
Been Down Into the South: A 21st-Century Freedom Ride (Part 1)
When we pay attention, there’s a fire at the heart of our shared life in America. The question Baltimore is forcing us to consider is whether we will be consumed by these flames or saved from them?
The Danger of Not Being Ashamed: A White Mother’s Lament for Freddie Gray
"Yet they were not ashamed." Was I the they? Who were God's people?
O Say, Can You See? A Way Forward After Baltimore
Can we see by the dawn’s early light? Can we—the forces of love and justice—by the dawn’s early light, unify around a comprehensive strategy to get people talking, seeking the common truth of reality, and repairing the breach of trust.
Police Killing Unarmed People Must Stop
As a former police leader and now a pastor, I am calling for an end to the killing of unarmed people by police.
Black Prophetic Fire in the Age of Obama
The great irony of our time is that in the age of Obama the grand Black prophetic tradition is weak and feeble. Obama’s Black face of the Am...
North Carolina is Our Selma
MAR 9, 2015 | By: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II--Selma is not dead. It's not even past. It is alive in North Carolina.
Oh Freedom: Learning from Selma for Today’s Struggle
As I reflect on the memory of that memorial walk across the bridge, I am reminded that we are still longing for and singing, "Oh freedom. . ."
The LORD Will Raise a Prophet
Deuteronomy says, “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet… from among your own people” (18:15).
Radical Grace In A History of Race
That, in the end, might be the most frightening revelation of all for us: that God’s grace is real in the radical love ethic of Afro-American Christianity—and that, even more—our future depends on turning toward the radical grace of their God.