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By Mary C. Curtis, Joanne Levine and Evan Campbell

Posted October 7, 2021 at 4:19pm

Civil rights leader and National Urban League president and CEO Marc Morial says he is “damn worried” about the state of American democracy. Mary C. Curtis sits down with Morial to talk about voting rights, infrastructure, the filibuster and so much more.

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