Civil rights leader slams Biden's proposed menthol ban, exclusion from talks: 'I feel slighted'
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Civil rights leader Charles Steele Jr. told Fox News Digital his storied group has been excluded from talks involving President Biden's menthol cigarette ban.
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"We are not being included in the conversation in terms of the civil rights movement, so how can any group of leaders - be it mayors, Congress, or the President of the United States - talk about Black folks and poor folks?" Steele asked Fox News Digital. "How can they bring policy and a mandate to ban menthol cigarettes?" Fox News Digital's Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.
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