Reading his bio, it sounds like William Barber II was destined for the role of prophet from the time he was 15. Leadership in NAACP and student government as a teenager prepared him all the roles he is now undertaking.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 11:09 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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The N.C. Supreme Court has refused to take up the Rev. William Barber's appeal of his 2019 conviction for second-degree trespass.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 8:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a second-degree trespass conviction against left-wing activist the Rev. William Barber.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 2:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We should never equate compassion or morality with a government program
Published: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 11:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The four-year-old case of a high-profile, left-of-center N.C. political activist convicted of trespassing at the state Legislative Building now sits in the hands of the state’s second-highest court.
Published: Wednesday, August 25th, 2021 @ 4:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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William “Bill” Francis Barber 94, of Blounts Creek died on December 8, 2020 at the Courtyards of Berne Village Memory Care Center in New Bern.
Published: Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 @ 12:27 pm
By: Announcements
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NC NAACP President William Barber has popped into the news again, as he tries to do whenever TV cameras are turned on
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"America has a heart problem," proclaimed Reverend William Barber at the recent Democratic National Convention. Combining the words and style of an old-time revivalist with a modern-day prophet, Barber stirred the audience and reverberated across America
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2016 @ 10:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Bill Barber got tossed off an airplane. (No, it wasn't in mid-air.) Single-handedly, Lardbutt probably pissed off MORE people on this airplane than HB2 could ever hope to, period.
Published: Saturday, April 23rd, 2016 @ 6:37 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 17, approximately 10,000 people attended the "We Stand With God" rally on the Halifax Mall behind North Carolina's legislative building.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 @ 1:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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There were very few surprises during this summer's three-week federal court hearing to decide the fate of election reform legislation that was passed in 2013 and implemented in 2014 — but there was one big revelation.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 6:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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No one in authority has said why both houses of our legislature mysteriously, rapidly and overwhelmingly passed modifications to their 2013 election law changes or why Governor McCrory just as unceremoniously signed them into law.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 2:57 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A Goldsboro-based organization headed by the Rev. William Barber this year received nearly $350,000 of your tax dollars. Yes, that William Barber — the ringleader of highly partisan political protests against the General Assembly the past few years.
Published: Monday, January 19th, 2015 @ 8:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As early voting opens for the 2014 general election, an attorney representing the state in the lawsuit fighting state election law reforms is seeking further information regarding statements made earlier this month by the Rev. William Barber at the state NAACP convention.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yep. That's the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Most preachers are pretty busy with church stuff on Sundays. Not the most-holy-of-holies, reverend Bill Barber, though. The Round Rev was busy preening in front of the slobbering sycophants and their cameras
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 12:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Recent comments from Rev. William Barber, self-appointed spokesman for the “Moral Monday” protests and leader of the NC state chapter of the NAACP, confirm that his vision for society endorses an aggressive use of violence against innocent individuals, and seeks to negate morality itself.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 6:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We've had that rotund, jheri-curled oaf Bill Barber out there for months hollering about the white Republicans on Jones Street.
Published: Saturday, June 21st, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Just try to implement some kind of frugality in public education budgets. You'll get all kinds of teeth-gnashing, wailing and crying about starving tha lil' chil'ren.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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At a community meeting at Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven, Dr. David Herman, president and CEO of Vidant Health, unveiled more details about the agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open and to transfer ownership of the hospital to the Belhaven community.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 10:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The April 1st closing date for Vidant Pungo Hospital is rapidly approaching.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:20 am
By: Betty Murphy
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The Rev. William Barber, president of the NC NAACP and initiator of the Moral Monday protests, continued his attack Tuesday on what he called "a monster voter suppression bill" and likened efforts to award Opportunity Scholarships to children from low-income families to segregationist actions of...
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any political movement that can turn out tens of thousands of protesters on a chilly morning in February must be deemed impressive.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last month, in a sermon the media described as "fire and thunder," the Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP, mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political - to the right.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Apparently, our esteemed state attorney general learned NOTHING from the Duke lacrosse case.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 8:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yep. *The civil rights movement sure has come a long way.* Tim Scott, a black South Carolinian whose life epitomizes what MLK was talking about in his famous 1963 speech, is being attacked by one of the alleged heirs of King's legacy.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When I first heard about what happened Monday night in Rocky Mount, I couldn't believe it. A reader from the Rocky Mount area tipped me off to an incident at that night's city council meeting. He directed me to this video, which details it in all its, um, glory.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The head of the state's NAACP said the civil rights organization is broadening its lawsuit against North Carolina's new voter ID law and election law changes.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 9:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bill Moyers - for many years an advocate on television for liberal causes - recently gave North Carolina a lesson in how to disguise bias and distortions as news, and we should pay attention to how he did it.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Round Rev and his rabble regularly showed up at The Legislative Building in Raleigh over the last year demanding that education spending and teacher pay be elevated to at least match "the national average."
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 10:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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For months, we've been subjected to stories from our state's dwindling, money-bleeding mainstream media fawning over Big Bill Barber's Traveling Circus & Freak Show.
Published: Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The state is asking a federal court to dismiss two lawsuits - one filed by the North Carolina NAACP and one filed by the League of Women Voters of N.C. - challenging the new law requiring voters to present government-issued identification when voting and changing other...
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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They filed a lawsuit against Governor McCrory for signing common sense election reforms into law, and now have they want to pull the Civitas Institute into their lawsuit like some kind of co-conspirator.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We here in Moore County were, um, “honored” with the presence of Bill Barber and his traveling circus of parasites and leftist loons this afternoon.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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