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‘Make Sure Everybody Can Get a Gun Easier Than They Can Vote’

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II on the Republicans’ new agenda. 

The Nation

January 25, 2016

A woman points a handgun with a laser sight on a wall display of other guns during the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis.(AP Photo / Jeff Roberson)

To mark the occasion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, one of the inspiring leaders of North Carolina’s Moral Movement, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, joined New York’s Riverside Church on Sunday, January 17, to deliver this powerful sermon.

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