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Ernie Suggs

National Urban League's State of Black America: Democracy in peril

ATLANTA — The National Urban League painted a dark picture in its annual State of Black America report.

On the campus of Clark Atlanta University, Urban League President Marc H. Morial argued that lawmakers, consultants and violent extremists — in Georgia and elsewhere — are plotting to "disenfranchise, delude, manipulate and intimidate American voters and establish a one-party rule" that hurts minority voters.

The report, "Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy," also concluded that despite social and economic gains, Black Americans still get less than 75% of the wealth and other benefits that whites get.

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