Introducing Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting US Voting Rights Act is βevilβ β podcast
The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states canβt consider race in redistricting. Southern states from Tennessee to Alabama have rushed to erase majority Black districts, sparking chaos for the midterm elections. Kai Wright talks with Stacey Abrams, voting rights activist and former Georgia house minority leader, about the fallout from the decision and why she thinks the way forward is still through engaging more voters to participate in democracy: βThey have fractured communities and said weβre going to scatter these seeds. Our job is to grow.β Continue reading...
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