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  • Black Agenda Radio November 11, 2022
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio November 11, 2022
    11 Nov 2022
    In this segment we will learn about the scarcity of affordable housing in New York City and why this public need is not being met. We will also hear about how voting rights for formerly convicted…
  • Formerly Convicted Persons Deprived of Voting Rights in Florida
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Formerly Convicted Persons Deprived of Voting Rights in Florida
    11 Nov 2022
    Patrick Berry is a counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, where he focuses on voting rights restoration and promoting fair, diverse, and impartial courts. He joins us from New York to…
  • Census Undercount Increased in 2020
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Census Undercount Increased in 2020
    30 Sep 2022
    Kelly Percival is Senior Council with the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. She is co-author of the report Improving the Census. She joins us from New York to discuss the…
  • Black Agenda Radio September 23, 2022
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Black Agenda Radio September 23, 2022
    23 Sep 2022
    Laith Marouf and all defenders of Palestinian rights struggle against political and media erasure, Tracy McCarter and other abuse survivors face prosecution when defending themselves, and people with…
  • Felony Convictions and Voting Rights
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Felony Convictions and Voting Rights
    23 Sep 2022
    Across the United States, people with past felony convictions may have severely restricted access to the franchise and in some cases may be denied the right to vote forever. Blair Bowie is senior…
  • Biden and His Promises, Promises. Why Did You Believe?
    Jacqueline Luqman
    Biden and His Promises, Promises. Why Did You Believe?
    19 Jan 2022
    Presidential candidate Joe Biden promised action on issues that had broad public support. But once in office he refused to do what the people wanted.
  • Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
    Greg Palast
    Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
    27 Jun 2018
    “The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.”
  • Blocking the vote is a bipartisan project
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    How Democrats and Republicans Collude to Block the Vote -- And How We Can Un-Block It
    17 Dec 2015
    We hear lots of outrage about how Republicans block the vote. But blocking the vote by keeping third parties off the ballot with unjust laws in more than a dozen states is a project Democrats share…
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    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act
    27 Jun 2013
    The Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act didn't have to happen? Democrats, especially the black leadership class had more than a generation to exploit their moral and political high…
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    The Real News Network
    Supreme Court Kneecaps Voting Rights Act: The Real News Network Talks to Bruce A. Dixon
    26 Jun 2013
    Supreme Court kneecaps the voting rights act... BAR's Bruce A. Dixon on the Real News Network Real News Network, where you can find much more news updated every day at http://therealnews.com.
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