Special Episode: Branded

Memory Wars brings you the latest work of reporter Mallory Noe-Payne. The poll tax. Literacy tests. Terror at the ballot box. All of these are voter suppression methods synonymous with the Jim Crow South. But today, in 2023, a vestige of Jim Crow still lurks in Virginia’s Constitution: felony disenfranchisement. Virginia is one of only three states that permanently strips people with a felony conviction of their right to vote. And the power to restore that right rests in one person’s hands, the Governor. In a special one-hour program, reporter Mallory Noe-Payne brings us one man’s story — and how it weaves with decades of history. Listen to Branded, a special documentary from Radio IQ and Virginia Public Radio.

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Special Episode: Branded is an episode from Memory Wars by Kyle Lerfald.

This episode is 52:11 long.

This episode was published on Oct 26, 2023.

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