Rev. Dr. Barber will entrust leadership of the NAACP in his home state to others in order to help organize a new Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C. and twenty-five states across the nation.
On this day, God is standing on a ledge, having thrown us out one more time, and is beseeching us to learn who we are. God knows; God just wants us to know. God is calling out to us, “arch your back!”
On April 14, state Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order that effectively halted six of the executions over concerns the state used false pretenses to obtain a key drug slated to be used in the executions.