Source: Tammy Grubb, NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/1/19


An overflow crowd of all races and ages worshiped Sunday with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on his first campaign visit to North Carolina before engaging him in a conversation about poverty. It’s not about left or right, liberal or conservative, said the Rev. William Barber II, pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro and the former state NAACP president. Poverty is a “moral crisis” in this nation, Barber said, as he and the Rev. Renita Weems delivered a fiery call to action.

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