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Shacks without indoor running water. >> reverend jackson, of course you continue to fight the fight for the right for everyone to have access to the voting polls without any sort of limitations, any barriers, but i want to get into more personal conversation with you, if i may, right now. when you woke up this morning, you are a praying man, i want to know your thoughts, i want to know your prayers when you woke up this morning and youre on your knees -- >> i thank god for being here 50 years la...

About. it seems like more and more often black and brown bodies are the ones that are being killed. >> you are in ferguson are on the front end of some of this movement as it evolved and grown and matured and here you are now in new york. im struck by just the visual differences. its young people but the visual differences between what we saw on the streets in ferguson and now what we see in new york. what do you think the key difference is? >> i think ferguson is a special kind of racism. its u...

Families who crowded this swelters church to say good-bye to michael brown, walked in with their hands up, dont shoot, the gesture that has come to symbolize the protest against police here. >> let us not lose sight of the fact that this young man should be doing his second week in college. >> reporter: for families here and across the country, this has become a movement. >> we have had enough of the senseless killing. show up at the voting polls. let your voices be heard. >> reporter: the famil...

Some of the communities, like the black community and up the showing for the voting polls now and really paint his point here in the primary as someone who is this money hacker. hes going to get in and strip away any federal assistance. that was his claim here. still came away shy with a victory. mcdaniel said im not giving up. nighttime -- not time to surrender yet. >> there is something a bit strange, there is something a bit unusual about a republican primary thats decided by liberal democrat...

Conservatives, i cant be a part of this. >> it is only a matter of time until the wheel turns and it goes towards black liberals. it is wrong either way. >> well, listen i hear what you guys are saying and i am glad, niger, that you brought up voter registration, that is what the naacp has a huge vote on, all of these agencies limiting the blacks to the polls -- >> richard, were not here to talk about voting, registration or anything. no, no, i want to read where the moral authority is within th...

Conservatives, i cant be a part of this. >> it is only a matter of time until the wheel turns and it goes towards black liberals. it is wrong either way. >> well, listen i hear what you guys are saying and i am glad, niger, that you brought up voter registration, that is what the naacp has a huge vote on, all of these agencies limiting the blacks to the polls -- >> richard, were not here to talk about voting, registration or anything. no, no, i want to read where the moral authority is within th...

We can show it all over again, if you want, michael. republican leaders in harrisburg bragging and saying were going to screw the black vote. >> i think its boneheaded. i think its a boneheaded approach. look, if you want to make an effective opportunity for voters at the ballot box, thats fine. lay out what your argument is going to be, lay out the plan. but what we saw in 2012 was we made it concurrent. so were going to change the law in august to apply to the november election. so if im a vot...

Holder calls a setback has to be good because this is a guy, we really didnt think the new black panthers in philadelphia at the voting polls was a serious set back, suing specific states over certain things, that wasnt a serious set back. so when holder is disappointed, i walk a little happier. >> greg makes a good point. maybe most of america doesnt understand what section 4 is. that was a formula to determine which states had to get federal approval to change voting procedures, those states h...

They say it is very transparent. the director of the election board, jeff hastings told us they have made major strides. have you seen the acorn type problems now? >> no. we dont see those problems. that was, that was, significant. it was objectionable and we needed to put our feet board and we did at this board and across the state and we know what happened to acorn report are the if the race is close it could come down to here for provisional ballots. they dont start counting provisional pool ...

Board member who voted against early weekend voting said quote, i guess i really actually feel we shouldnt contort the voting process to accommodate the urban red african-american voter turn out machine. nerd, they dont like to help black americans get to the voting polls. in virginia, the department of justice signed off on the law for the first time. residents have to show some form of i.d. to vote and in pennsylvania last week, the -- a judge refused to block the states strict new photo voter...