About this episode:
With national protests and wide social unrest, 2020 feels to some like 1968. That year, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. launched The Poor People’s Campaign. He called for a revolution around economic justice and a movement to unite people against poverty, racism, and other forms of oppression.
In 2018, organizers resurrected the cause, re-establishing The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Host Trymaine Lee talks to Rev. Dr. William J Barber II, president of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign about the importance of building coalitions for lasting change, and the Campaign’s upcoming virtual march on Washington.
MSNBC will stream “The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington” on Saturday, June 20, from 10am to 12:30pm EST on MSNBC.com and the MSNBC Youtube Channel.
Find the transcript here.
Further Reading:
- The coronavirus will devastate the South because politicians let poverty to do so first
- Geography of Poverty: A journey through forgotten America
- Fifty years after Poor People’s Campaign, America’s once-poorest town still struggles