<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Barber II, William J.]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Barber II, William J.]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/multcolib/rss/search?query=Barber%20II%2C%20William%20J.&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:21:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[White Poverty]]></title><description><![CDATA[A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty, promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years.     One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty-along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps-as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that result?    These are among the questions that the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, a leading advocate for the rights of the poor and the "closest person we have to Dr. King" (Cornel West), addresses in White Poverty, a groundbreaking work that exposes a legacy of historical myths that continue to define both white and Black people, creating in the process what might seem like an insuperable divide. Analyzing what has changed since the 1930s, when the face of American poverty was white, Barber, along with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that just might provide the key to mitigating racism and bringing together tens of millions of working class and impoverished Americans.    Thus challenging the very definition of who is poor in America, Barber writes about the lies that prevent us from seeing the pain of poor white families who have been offered little more than their "whiteness" and angry social media posts to sustain them in an economy where the costs of housing, healthcare, and education have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated for all but the very rich. Asserting in Biblically inspired language that there should never be shame in being poor, White Poverty lifts the hope for a new "moral fusion movement" that seeks to unite people "who have been pitted against one another by politicians (and billionaires) who depend on the poorest of us not being here."    Ultimately, White Poverty, a ringing work that braids poignant autobiographical recollections with astute historical analysis, contends that tens of millions of America's poorest earners, the majority of whom don't vote, have much in common, thus providing us with one of the most empathetic and visionary approaches to American poverty in decades.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2421037</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2421037</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barber II, William J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2421037152</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324094883/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third Reconstruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America's racial divide.Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to voting access and an extreme makeover of state government. These protests—the largest state government–focused civil disobedience campaign in American history—came to be known as Moral Mondays and have since blossomed in states as diverse as Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York.At a time when divide-and-conquer politics are exacerbating racial strife and economic inequality, Rev. Barber offers an impassioned, historically grounded argument that Moral Mondays are hard evidence of an embryonic Third Reconstruction in America.The first Reconstruction briefly flourished after Emancipation, and the second Reconstruction ushered in meaningful progress in the civil rights era. But both were met by ferocious reactionary measures that severely curtailed, and in many cases rolled back, racial and economic progress. This Third Reconstruction is a profoundly moral awakening of justice-loving people united in a fusion coalition powerful enough to reclaim the possibility of democracy—even in the face of corporate-financed extremism.In this memoir of how Rev. Barber and allies as diverse as progressive Christians, union members, and immigration-rights activists came together to build a coalition, he offers a trenchant analysis of race-based inequality and a hopeful message for a nation grappling with persistent racial and economic injustice. Rev. Barber writes movingly—and pragmatically—about how he laid the groundwork for a state-by-state movement that unites black, white, and brown, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, gay and straight, documented and undocumented, religious and secular. Only such a diverse fusion movement, Rev. Barber argues, can heal our nation's wounds and produce public policy that is morally defensible, constitutionally consistent, and economically sane. The Third Reconstruction is both a blueprint for movement building and an inspiring call to action from the twenty-first century's most effective grassroots organizer.From the Hardcover edition.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C392989</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C392989</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barber II, William J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/392989152</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>How A Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[White Poverty]]></title><description><![CDATA["One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty--along with issues like welfare, unemployment, and food stamps--as solely a Black problem. Why is this so? What are the historical causes? And what are the political consequences that result? These are among the questions that the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, a leading advocate for the rights of the poor and the 'closest person we have to Dr. King' (Cornel West), addresses in White Poverty, a groundbreaking work that exposes a legacy of historical myths that continue to define both white and Black people, creating in the process what might seem like an insuperable divide. Analyzing what has changed since the 1930s, when the face of American poverty was white, Barber, along with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that just might provide the key to mitigating racism and bringing together tens of millions of working class and impoverished Americans." -- Dust jacket.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2337928</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2337928</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barber, William J., II]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2337928152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781324094876/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1398568575</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third Reconstruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[This memoir and blueprint for movement building offers up an inspiring call to action from the twenty-first century₂s most effective grassroots organizer.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C512022</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C512022</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barber, William J., II]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/512022152</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>How A Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781520084831/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1002133994</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Third Reconstruction]]></title><description><![CDATA[A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America's racial divide. Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to voting access and an extreme makeover of state government. These protests-the largest state government-focused civil disobedience campaign in American history-came to be known as Moral Mondays and have since blossomed in states as diverse as Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York. At a time when divide-and-conquer politics are exacerbating racial strife and economic inequality, Rev. Barber offers an impassioned, historically grounded argument that Moral Mondays are hard evidence of an embryonic Third Reconstruction in America. The first Reconstruction briefly flourished after Emancipation, and the second Reconstruction ushered in meaningful progress in the civil rights era. But both were met by ferocious reactionary measures that severely curtailed, and in many cases rolled back, racial and economic progress. This Third Reconstruction is a profoundly moral awakening of justice-loving people united in a fusion coalition powerful enough to reclaim the possibility of democracy-even in the face of corporate-financed extremism. In this memoir of how Rev. Barber and allies as diverse as progressive Christians, union members, and immigration-rights activists came together to build a coalition, he offers a trenchant analysis of race-based inequality and a hopeful message for a nation grappling with persistent racial and economic injustice. Rev. Barber writes movingly-and pragmatically-about how he laid the groundwork for a state-by-state movement that unites black, white, and brown, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, gay and straight, documented and undocumented, religious and secular. Only such a diverse fusion movement, Rev. Barber argues, can heal our nation's wounds and produce public policy that is morally defensible, constitutionally consistent, and economically sane. The Third Reconstruction is both a blueprint for movement building and an inspiring call to action from the twenty-first century's most effective grassroots organizer.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C170891</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C170891</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barber, William J., II]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/170891152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How A Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807007419/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=932385596</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forward Together]]></title><description><![CDATA[North Carolina's Moral Monday protests have drawn tens of thousands of protestors in what has been called the new Civil Rights Movement. Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation shares the theological foundation for the Moral Monday movement, serving as a proclamation of a new American movement seeking equal treatment and opportunity for all regardless of economic status, sexual preference, belief, race, geography, and any other discriminatory bases. The book will also serve as a model for other movements across the country and around the world using North Carolina as a case study, providing useful, practical tips about grassroots organizing and transformative leadership.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C506131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C506131</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barber II, Rev.  William J.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/506131152</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Moral Message for the Nation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Hundred Souls]]></title><description><![CDATA[A chorus of extraordinary voices tells one of history's great epics: The four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619-- a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod, when the White Lion disgorged "some 20 and odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia-- to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history. Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a brief period of that four-hundred-year-span. The writers explore their periods through a variety of techniques: historical essays, short stories, personal vignettes, and fiery polemics. They approach history from various perspectives: though the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects. While themes of resistance and struggle, of hope and reinvention, course though the book, this collection of diverse pieces fundamentally deconstructs the idea that Africans in America are a monolith. Instead it unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness. This is a history that illuminates our past and gives us new ways of thinking about our future, written by the most vital and essential voices of our present--From dust jacket]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1689032</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1689032</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1689032152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Community History of African America, 1619-2019</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593134047/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1184240347</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move When the Spirit Says Move]]></title><description><![CDATA[A chronicle of the remarkable life of the only woman on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's executive staff.  It includes insights, commentary, and reflections from notables such as Andrew Young, LaTosha Brown, William Barber and others.  Dorothy served as an educator teaching thousands of Black Americans the fundamentals of citizenship. Her classes formed the foundation on which the Civil Rights movement was built.  Dorothy was a charismatic, courageous and consistenly overlooked key player in the Civil Rights Movement, whose freedom schools, freedom songs and messages of empowerement are profoundly needed today.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2613352</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2613352</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2613352152</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>The Legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1521264410&amp;upc=840418323069</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four Hundred Souls]]></title><description><![CDATA["A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1720120</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1720120</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1720120152</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Community History of African America, 1619-2019</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593402429/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1237756271</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decolonizing Wealth]]></title><description><![CDATA["This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a decolonizer" -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1774355</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1774355</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Villanueva, Edgar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1774355152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781523091416/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1246674519</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reconstructing the Gospel]]></title><description><![CDATA["'I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided.' Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, 'Amazing grace, how sweet the sound' also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder. Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond. When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings both for individuals and for society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land"-- Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1246220</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1246220</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1246220152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780830845347/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1011209535</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black History, 1619-2019]]></title><description><![CDATA["Black History 1619 - 2019: An Illustrated and Documented African-American History is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the events which shaped the lives and contributions of African-Americans from the experience of the era of slavery until modern times. The book contains fourteen well-researched chapters starting with Chapter 1, Colonial Domestic Slave Trade (1619 - 1775), and ending with Chapter 14, Post-Civil Rights Movement (1967 - 2019). Each chapter is dedicated to revealing the truth and correcting misrepresentations about black history. Setting the record straight with black history using facts and primary sources and over 300 photographs and illustrations is the antidote to historical revisionism. This book was written to promote awareness, to preserve and disseminate information, and to restore the integrity of African-American history in the black community in the United States of America"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1763609</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C1763609</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yocum, Sandra K.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1763609152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>An Illustrated and Documented African-American History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781557789440/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1145097026</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[God & Country]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looks at the implications of Christian Nationalism and how it distorts not only the constitutional republic, but Christianity itself.]]></description><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2500444</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2500444</guid><category><![CDATA[VIDEO_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2500444152</comments><format>VIDEO_ONLINE</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essentially John Mayall]]></title><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2635355</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2635355</guid><category><![CDATA[MUSIC_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mayall, John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2635355152</comments><format>MUSIC_ONLINE</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[50 Years of Ocean Discovery]]></title><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C907239</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C907239</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/907239152</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>National Science Foundation, 1950-2000</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780309063982/MC.GIF&amp;client=multp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=44720896</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music By The Sea]]></title><link>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2708821</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C2708821</guid><category><![CDATA[MUSIC_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2708821152</comments><format>MUSIC_ONLINE</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>