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.

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.

The Root spoke to Rev. William Barber II, who said this time around, Trump is making his message painfully clear: get rid of diversity and preserve white America. “They are afraid of the growing ...