REV. DR. WILLIAM BARBER, II is the President of the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (2005), and was re-elected National Board Member (2011) and appointed as the National NAACP Chair of the Legislative Political Action Committee. Under his leadership, the NAACP developed a new 21st Century voter registration/voter participation system. Nationwide
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Read MoreSerene Jones — The Hill — April 16, 2015, 04:00 pm Every year around Tax Day, while settling up my account with Uncle Sam, I think about what it is that my tax dollars help to support. Some things I strongly agree with, some not so much. As President of Union Theological Seminary, I’m especially appreciative
Read MoreBy Serene Jones — @SereneJones — July 23, 2015 Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. We must first address the underlying issues President Barack Obama’s historic visit to a federal detention facility last week focused America’s attention on the brutal realities of our criminal justice system. Yet this
Read MoreBy Serene Jones | Religion News Service | July 15 I woke up Tuesday (July 14) to buzz after buzz on my phone — texts flooding in from young Iranians I had met in June, celebrating the historic nuclear agreement that had just been announced. Only a few weeks have passed since I visited Iran with
Read MorePBS NewsHour — May 12, 2015 at 6:20 PM EDT While the U.S. is still an overwhelmingly Christian country, since 2007 there has been a notable drop in the number of Americans who call themselves such, and the number of people who don’t identify as any religion has risen dramatically. Jeffrey Brown talks to Alan Cooperman
Read MoreDemocracy Now! — Friday, September 19, 2014 New York City is set to host what could be the largest climate change protest in history. Organizers expect more than 100,000 people to converge for a People’s Climate March on Sunday. Some 2,000 solidarity events are scheduled around the world this weekend ahead of Tuesday’s United Nations climate summit.
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