Episode 2 - Jailed for Voting

The unintended consequences of voter suppression. Really. Alarming news out of Georgia made national headlines: 53,000 voter registrations were on hold. Black voters didn’t take it lying down. What if voter suppression is beginning to backfire? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv ...  Show more

We take a 1960’s literacy test, designed to keep black people from voting, and learn more about how America made it hard, and continues to make it hard, for the black voter to get to the polls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

This story was co-published with <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/before-l ...

Black Voter Suppression has been the discussion of many news outlets as of recent. The left claims that nonwhite voters in America are disenfranchised due to racially targeted barriers to voting, most famously voter ID. The right claims that voter ID is necessary to ensure public ...  Show more

Republican legislatures across the country are pushing new voter restrictions, and many of those potential changes would disproportionately affect communities of color. On today's CNN Political Briefing, CNN Race and Equality senior writer Nicquel Terry Ellis explains the effects ...  Show more

With all the discussion of the contentious 2016 election, the most shocking fact is often ignored: that millions of people had their votes stolen through malicious, means. The Republican Party is currently working to purge millions more voters leading up to the 2018 election. To ...  Show more