Willie Baptist on inequality and poverty

Portrait of Willie Baptist.

Willie Baptist’s understanding of inequality is tied to his own experience of being homeless on the streets of Philadelphia. Today, the educator and organizer decries the “contradiction of poverty in the midst of plenty.”

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