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Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’

Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’

Science Weekly vor 4 Monaten

The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais last month. Kai Wright talks to the voting rights advocate and former Georgia state legislator Stacey Abrams about what she believes is the way forward

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The US supreme court dealt a devastating blow to the 1965 Voting
Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that
states cannot 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 to
Stacey Abrams, a voting rights activist and former Georgia house
minority leader, about the fallout from the decision, and why,
despite it all, she still believes the way forward lies in engaging
more voters to participate in democracy. ‘They have fractured
communities and said we’re going to scatter these seeds. Our job is
to grow,’ she says. Help support our independent journalism at
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