Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
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It\\u2019s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise disturbing connections to the past. On this week\\u2019s show, we\\u2019ll hear about hard fought battles for voting rights and the implications of new laws.
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- Reverend Tyrone Edwards,\\xa0civil rights historian in Plaquemines Parish Louisiana \\n
- Tyrone Brooks, Georgia State Representative \\n
- Clifford Kuhn, Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \\n
- JT Johnson, civil rights organizer \\n
- Allen Secher, rabbi \\n
- Jerel James, Tamia Adkinson, docents at\\xa0Civil Rights Museum of St. Augustine \\n
- August Tinson, testified in U.S. vs Fox (1962) \\n
- Gary May,\\xa0professor of history at the University of Delaware and the author of\\xa0Bending Towards Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy. \\n