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

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

Politics Weekly America vor 5 Monaten

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

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The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it
ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t 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:
‘They have fractured communities and said we’re going to scatter
these seeds. Our job is to grow.’