WATCH: If poor and working-class people voted more often, politics would change for the better. That was the message Monday from civil rights leader William Barber II and the Poor People’s Campaign, a national economic justice group originally led by Martin Luther King Jr. The organization’s leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to talk about…
WATCH: If poor and working-class people voted more often, politics would change for the better.
That was the message Monday from civil rights leader William Barber II and the Poor People’s Campaign, a national economic justice group originally led by Martin Luther King Jr. The organization’s leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to talk about their 2024 plan to focus on mobilizing poorer voters that tend to stay out of elections.
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