NPR's Michel Martin talks to Rev. William Barber II ahead of the Poor People's Campaign march. His book is White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.

Conservatives have appealed to White Americans’ fear and suggested that collective efforts to address systemic injustice are anti-White. But this is the big lie White supremacy has always told ...

Why does the book focus on ‘white poverty’? Barber and Wilson-Hartgrove say politicians continue to use a decades-old strategy of dividing Americans by suggesting that Black, brown and white ...

When he was a teenager, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove heard Reverend William Barber II preach, and invited the Black pastor to speak at his majority-white, strongly Republican high school.

A new book by a Black civil rights leader urges his allies to acknowledge the plight of poor white people — and build a multiracial coalition for justice.