Bishop William J. Barber II, D. Min., who was escorted out of a screening of The Color Purple Tuesday after insisting on sitting in a chair he needs to help with a severe and disabling bone disease, will hold a press conference Friday with community supporters to address the incident.

The faith leaders said the killing of Carr, Gallion, and Leguerre is calling us to never be silent again, to challenge hate, and to organize a mass movement of love and truth across Florida that will not only take back the mic from those who speak lies and hate, but also vote them out of office if they refuse to cease and desist from their harmful ways.

Diverse faith groups, including major religious leaders, heads of denominations, pastors, the Florida Council of Churches and Repairers of the Breach announced Tuesday they are joining together to launch a season of repentance, confession, fasting and prayer, calling on elected leaders in the state and nationwide to cease and desist from sowing division and hate.

About 100 people gathered Saturday night at the Exxon Service Station located at the corner of Hwy 90 and Bellingrath Rd in Theodore, Alabama, to remember Jawan Lee Mcgee-Dallas, a 36-year-old Black man tragically killed on the night of July 2, 2023, in an encounter with law enforcement.

In response to the North Carolina General Assembly's pursuit of an extreme and violent agenda, Bishop William J. Barber II, at the invitation of the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign, alongside impacted people, moral religious leaders, and advocates, will speak at the Moral Monday Rally in Charlotte

undreds of Poor People’s Campaign leaders from over 30 states will join together on Capitol Hill June 19-21 to shift the nation’s attention to the reality of poverty in the country, highlight poverty as an American death sentence and demand action to end murder by public policy.

In response to the Atlanta City Council voting to approve $30 million to build a training for law enforcement officers, the Rev. William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, issued the following statement.

Bishop William J. Barber II, Repairers of the Breach, and Florida Poor People’s Campaign will join with impacted people and hundreds of interracial, interfaith clergy members at a mass meeting Thursday to call out Gov. Ron DeSantis for deceiving the public about the policy violence he’s inflicted on people across Florida, including the state’s most poor.

“When extremist lawmakers in the North Carolina Senate voted to override the Governor’s veto on the abortion ban, they falsely claimed to do so in the name of preserving life. The truth is that there is nothing “pro-life” about denying reproductive rights to women who have been denied access to healthcare for a decade.

Dozens of diverse, interfaith clergy members, impacted persons, and advocates from across the state joined Bishop William J. Barber II and Repairers of the Breach at a press conference Friday at the General Assembly to condemn extremist legislators’ push for an extreme abortion ban in the state, calling it the latest example of their attack on our democracy and the state’s 4.7 million residents who are poor or low-income.

“Republican extremists in the North Carolina General Assembly are trying to pass an abortion ban that they say is ‘pro-life.’ But if they were serious about life, they would be addressing the fourth leading cause of death in the US today—poverty.

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