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Liz Theoharis

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. She is the author of "Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor" (2017).

Articles by this author

 
Moral March on Manchin and McConnell

Juneteenth and Filibuster Fuel Fight for Democracy That Works for Everyone

Some U.S. lawmakers are all too willing to sign off on another holiday, especially if they can use it as cover while actively working to suppress voting rights, block living wages and reparations, fight against healthcare, and more.

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Poor people's campaign rally.

Lift Up From the Bottom and Raise Everyone Up

Are these stirrings really the sound of a Third Reconstruction in the United States?

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A recent poll found that a quarter of women claimed they were financially worse off a year into the pandemic. (Photo: Getty/Stock Photo)

Mother’s Day Tears and the Fierce Prophetic Vision of Poor Women

This past year-plus has laid bare the pressures, burdens, and violence that women, especially poor women and women of color, face every day.

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., national co-chair of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, speaks out against the U.S.-led war in Vietnam at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. on February 6, 1968. King would be assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee less than two months later. (Photo: Joseph Klipple/Getty Images)

The American Spiritual Death Spiral

Living in a country haunted by death.

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Hundreds of community members line up early to pick up food boxes at Chelsea Collaborative during their weekly food drive in Chelsea, MA on July 15, 2020. (Photo: Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

We Must Put Human Life Before Corporate Profits

Whose rights matter in pandemic America? Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure.

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis ·

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to onlookers while leading the 125,000 strong 'Walk to Freedom' on Woodward Avenue in Detroit in 1963. (Photo: Tony Spina / Detroit Free Press)

The Nation Must Have the Moral Courage To Carry on the Work of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Earth does not belong to Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or the white supremacists of the world. 

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Too many have died because our country’s preexisting conditions of systemic injustice have gone untreated for so long and those in power never seem to learn the applicable lesson of this moment. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The Ghosts of Christmas Present: GOP Kick the Most Vulnerable Amid Pandemic

Vaccine thinking applied to all of American life.

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis ·

There are already those in the media and politics who are counseling restraint and a return to the pre-Trump days, as if he were the cause, not the consequence, of a nation desperately divided. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Grappling With a Divided Nation

The new politics of the poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA.

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