News-Argus/Mitch Loeber

The Rev. Dr. William Barber, right, talks with a group of speakers invited to Monday's city council meeting before they outlined their Stop the Funerals plan to council members. Barber said the plan is designed to reach members of the community through educational and spiritual meetings and workshops to educate children and community members against drug use and gang violence.

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