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Poverty in Black and White
Episode 487

Poverty in Black and White

William Barber argues against seeing poverty as primarily a Black issue and seeks to create common ground across racial lines to address the problem.

The Brian Lehrer Show

July 16, 202435m 15s

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Show Notes

William Barber, a Protestant minister, social activist, professor, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, president of Repairers of the Breach and the author of White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy  (Liveright, 2024), argues against seeing poverty as primarily a Black issue and seeks to create common ground across racial lines to address the problem.

Topics

povertywealth_gapclass_solidaritylocal_wnycracewhite_povertyracial_inequityblack_poverty