The Rev. William J. Barber II, the human rights activist, delivered his last sermon as pastor of his North Carolina church Sunday, using the occasion to decry jubilance associated with the Juneteenth holiday.
Barber, 59, has been transitioning to Yale Divinity School, where he is the founding director of its Center for Public Theology & Public Policy.
On Sunday, Barber called the federal holiday that takes place Monday"not really a day of celebration, but a day when the lie was undone." "It was a terrible day," Barber said Sunday."For it was a day folk found out they had been lied to. They got two extra years of bondage. When they found out, they were not happy. They decided that now we gotta fight, sure enough, for full citizenship."
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