--- title: William J. Barber II | TIME description: Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He is author of We Are Called to Be a Movement. canonical: https://time.com/author/rev-william-j-barber-ii/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/rev-william-j-barber-ii/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # William J. Barber II ## William J. Barber II Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. He is author of We Are Called to Be a Movement. ## William J. Barber II *  Aug 5, 2025 ### [Poor People Are America’s Swing Voters](https://time.com/7307430/poor-people-americas-swing-voters/) "We need a movement to engage poor people who haven’t voted because they’ve never imagined the syste... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 25, 2022 ### [The Hypocrisy of Opposing Student Loan Relief](https://time.com/6208577/student-loan-forgiveness-republicans-christianity-bible/) Republicans’ knee-jerk opposition to debt forgiveness conflicts with Christian values. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 14, 2022 ### [Voting Rights Isn’t Just a Black Issue](https://time.com/6139456/martin-luther-king-jr-voting-rights/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 20, 2021 ### [What Low-Wage Workers Understand About the True Meaning of Christmas](https://time.com/6128026/christmas-low-income-families/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 20, 2021 ### [Democrats Must Pass Voting Rights Protections, But They Can't Codify a Lie](https://time.com/6099549/democrats-must-pass-voting-rights-protections-but-they-cant-codify-a-lie/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 14, 2021 ### [William Barber and Bernice King: We Must Reclaim Voting Rights as a Moral Issue](https://time.com/5954792/voting-rights-moral-issue/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 17, 2021 ### [The Fight for $15 Is Our Selma](https://time.com/5940311/minimum-wage-biden/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 21, 2021 ### ['We Must Have a Third Reconstruction.' Read the Full Text of the Rev. William J. Barber II's Sermon at the Inaugural Prayer Service](https://time.com/5931343/william-barber-inaugural-prayer-service-sermon/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 15, 2020 ### [COVID Deaths Surge Under 'Pro-Life' Leaders](https://time.com/5866928/coronavirus-pro-life/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 2, 2020 ### [The Evil Tucked Into the $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Bill](https://time.com/5814076/coronavirus-stimulus-bill-corporate-bailout/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Feb 22, 2018 ### [Rev. Barber: How We Can Address Racial Inequalities in Handling Drug Addiction](https://time.com/5168711/opioids-crack-crises/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 11, 2018 ### [President Trump’s New Judicial Nominee Is ‘Moral Poison’](https://time.com/5099446/donald-trump-judge-nominee-thomas-farr/) Picking a civil rights opponent while blocking two qualified African-American women [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 5, 2017 ### [Rev. Dr. Barber & Rev. Dr. Theoharis: It's Time to Fight for America's Soul](https://time.com/5048917/poor-peoples-campaign-martin-luther-king/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 3, 2017 ### [Why We March 49 Years After Dr. King Was Assassinated](https://time.com/4720779/mlk-anniversary/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 24, 2016 ### [The Boogeyman of Voter Fraud Does Not Exist](https://time.com/4542534/voter-fraud-boogeyman/) 'Raising the issue at the end of a losing campaign is a cynical attempt to manipulate fear' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/rev-william-j-barber-ii/","name":"William J. 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