Beginning in April 2013 , Barber led regular " Moral Mondays " civil-rights protests in North Carolina 's state capital , Raleigh . '' The Wall Street Journal '' credited Barber 's NAACP chapter with forming a coalition in 2007 named Historic Thousands on Jones Street People 's Assembly , composed of 93 North Carolina advocacy groups . " With this changing demographic , we had to operate in coalition , " Barber was quoted as saying . Historian and professor Timothy Tyson named Barber , " the most important progressive political leader in this state in generations , " saying that he " built a statewide interracial fusion political coalition that has not been seriously attempted since 1900 . " An article in the '' Michigan State Law Review '' , " Confronting Race : How a Confluence of Social Movements Convinced North Carolina to Go where the McCleskey Court Would n't " credits him with bringing together a statewide political coalition . He , " has become as well known in North Carolina as Governor Pat McCrory and Republican leaders of the House and Senate , " according to a 2013 '' Huffington Post '' profile of him . He traveled with NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous to meet with Georgia prison officials . In 2014 , he founded Repairers of the Breach , a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non-profit organization " formed to educate and train religious and other leaders of faith who will pursue policies and organizational strategies for the good of the whole and to educate the public about connections between shared religious faith . " In 2016 , he delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention ; the address was described as rousing and was well-received
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