This sermon, preached by Claire Chadwick, highlights the work of women leaders of the poor — those like preacher Martha Stearns Marshall, welfare rights organizers Beulah Sanders, Johnnie Tillman, and Etta Horn — who were not valued as leaders but who claimed that call to leadership even in the midst of those who would deny them.
A federal lawsuit initiated by the California Homeless Union against the City of Marysville and Yuba County seeking damages for the destruction of thousands of items of personal property has been tentatively settled for $330,000. Read more about the victory in this press release from the Homeless Union.
Sharon Lavigne, a founder and organizer of Rise St. James, Louisiana, testified in front of the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 20, 2019 about the situation in Death Alley, Louisiana. Read her testimony here.
Since the start of the new year, nine men have died in Mississippi’s Parchman Prison. The Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign has helped to organize moral outrage around this emergency. The Kairos Center joins these powerful leaders in their call for justice.
On June 20, 2020 the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will rise together as a powerful moral fusion movement in Washington, DC! Join us!
This new collection of sermons features religious and community leaders committed to the unity and organization of the poor for a powerful social movement to end poverty.
Kairos Center publications, articles, and research at the intersection of religion and human rights, including work from the Poverty Scholars’ Network on the defining issue of our day, the abolition of poverty.
A collection of Poor People’s Campaign resources for study on poverty in the United States, history, Dr. King’s vision, and today’s Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.