Episode 3 - The Day I Started to Fight

Five years in prison for voting. That’s the time Crystal Mason will serve for unknowingly voting while on supervised release. In this episode we explore how felons do the time, but are second-class citizens on election day. Americans are comfortable with shutting out felons from ...  Afficher plus

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. 

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 ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus

In the wake of the 2020 election, Republican officials across the country are pushing legislation that would curb voting access. Today, CNN reporter Kelly Mena walks through the efforts some Republican lawmakers are making in key battleground states to roll back those provisions, ...  Afficher plus

Final hours of voting in high-stakes California recall. CNN investigates Trump’s lies and attempt to overturn election. Trump tried to pressure election and DOJ officials to intervene in election. GOP rewriting voting rules in multiple states based on Trump’s “stolen election” li ...  Afficher plus