The 2021 Payton Distinguished Lectureship will feature President G. Gabrielle Starr in conversation with Rev. Dr. William Barber II. Rev. Dr. Barber holds many roles, including President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, as well as Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. As the architect of the Moral Movement, he recently relaunched Moral Monday protests in August 2020 under the banner of the Poor People's Campaign. Originally begun by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Rev. Dr. Barber helped reignite the Poor People's Campaign in 2018, starting with an historic wave of protests in state capitals and in Washington, D.C. The initiative calls for a moral agenda and a moral budget to address the five interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, the war economy and militarism, ecological devastation, and the false moral narrative of Christian nationalism.

This event is free and open to the public. Participants must register online to attend.

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The Pomona College Board of Trustees endowed the John A. Payton ’73 Distinguished Lectureship in memory of John Payton's life and influential career as a renowned civil rights attorney, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a member of the Pomona College Board of Trustees, and in honor of David W. Oxtoby, ninth president of Pomona College. This is the fourth annual Payton Lecture.