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Missouri and North Carolina Head to the Polls
Jo Mannies, St. Louis Public Radio (WKMU) political reporter, talks about the primary voting in Missouri.
Reverend Doctor William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, Nation Magazine contributor, the architect of the Forward Together Moral Monday Movement, and the co-author of The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement (Beacon Press, 2016), talks about the act of voting in the North Carolina primary, the first state-wide voting under their new controversial voting laws, plus other campaign issues.