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Taking Up the Mantle of Dr. King's Leadership
Rev. Dr. William Barber, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, NC, architect of the Moral Monday Movement and the author of We Are Called to Be a Movement (Workman Publishing Group, 2020), talks about how he carries on Martin Luther King, Jr's legacy in his work on the Poor People's Campaign, and how he foresees the Biden administration will tackle poverty.