The Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center will host Rev. William J. Barber as a speaker on Friday, August 12, at 6 PM. The conversation will be moderated and sponsored by civil rights activist, financier, and long-time BHCCRC advisory board member Ken Miller.
Rev. Dr. Barber is the President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach; Co- Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary.
For more than a quarter century, he has pastored the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Since Rev. Dr. Barber began his ministry at Greenleaf 29 years ago, the church has sponsored efforts that have led to more than $12 million of community development. He is also the author of four books.
Rev. Dr. Barber is architect of the Moral Movement, which began with weekly Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly in 2013 and revived under the banner of the Poor People’s Campaign. In 2018, Rev. Dr. Barber helped relaunch the Poor People’s Campaign — which was begun by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others in 1968 — with a historic wave of protests in state capitals and in Washington, D.C., calling for a moral agenda and a moral budget. Rev. Dr. Barber has been arrested 17 times for nonviolent civil disobedience. Millions of Americans have participated in Poor People’s Campaign events over the past three years.
“The Center is so proud to have Rev. William J. Barber for this important talk about Race in America. We are equally grateful to our advisory board member Ken Miller for helping to make this happen and to 1st Baptist Church. Our TFLS begins important conversations about race and inspires our community to limitless possibilities. We are honored to be able to present this important talk,” said Bonnie Michelle Cannon, The Center’s executive director.
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