Meet the Activists and Leaders Who Are Fighting for Equality | Time

These 16 People and Groups Are Fighting for a More Equal America

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February 20, 2020 7:30 AM EST

Meet the people and groups who are fighting to level up.

The Rev. William J. Barber II

Speaking up for the poor

Barber at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., on Jan. 27, before a backdrop showing the North Carolina house of representatives chamber where he was arrested in 2011
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The newsmaking actions of Rev. William J. Barber II are founded on the idea that being a person of faith means fighting for justice—whether by working beside a conservative mayor to protest the closing of rural hospitals or by calling for an NAACP boycott of the state in response to the legislature’s actions… —Mary C. Curtis

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