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Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 30-minute weekly program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations or by other independent producers from across the country and sometimes around the world.
This week’s Sprouts comes to us from producers Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg of WBAI’s Building Bridges. They interviewed the Reverend William Barber II of North Carolina, who as President of the state’s NAACP provided the vision behind a powerful grassroots movement called Moral Mondays. This movement has used mass demonstrations to challenge the N.C. legislature’s regressive agenda against gay marriage and voting rights, and more recently, its attempt to strip the incoming Democratic governor of power. In the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr., Reverend Barber speaks about the absolute necessity of fusing the interests of blacks and working-class whites, especially in the face of Trumpism, and especially in the South.
