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Extremism is its own vice, Moral Monday leader says.

     Bishop William Barber II, a Goldsboro, North Carolina minister and founder of Repairers of the Breach, led a rally Monday at the Government Center to urge North Carolinians to challenge the extremist agenda of state lawmakers at the ballot box. Barber maintains that the General Assembly’s Republican supermajority hasn’t addressed the effects of poverty, where there are 4.2 million poor and low-income people who account for 40.2% of the state’s population. […]