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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum, with efforts to

disenfranchise black voters alive and well, political analyst Tiffany Cross says Democrats need to do more to engage this powerful voting block that was critical to the party's 2018 blue wave and yet continues to be taken for granted by the party and in media narratives.

Cross, a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a frequent commentator on MSNBC and CNN joins us to remember

Representative John Lewis, who made protecting voting rights a key part of his work, and

she'll take your questions about the latest national political news. Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The role of black voters in shaping and saving an American democratic system still determined to exclude them is a little understood and appreciated part of U.S. history, one that Tiffany

Cross highlights in her new book, Say It Louder, Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving

Our Democracy. With November a few months away, Cross joins us to talk about the 2020 election,

protests for racial justice, including the latest from Portland, and to remember civil rights giant John Lewis.

Welcome to forum, Tiffany Cross.

I'm very happy to be here. Thanks for having me.

Well, we're really glad to have you. And of course, there's a direct line between the work of Representative John Lewis and the power of black voters today. First, what was your

reaction to the news of his death? Well, obviously, it was sad to see Congressman John Lewis pass on.

He was a torchbearer. And so the torchbearer passed, but in doing so, he passed a torch.

And so it is time for a newer generation of leaders to become equal to the task and address some of the inequality that John Lewis shed blood for.

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