The Return of Jim Crow: A Conversation with the ACLU’s Sophia Lin Lakin

The PoliticsGirl Podcast by MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl)

May 5, 202653:15News & Politics

Don’t think for a moment that the dismantling of the 1965 Voting Rights Act stops with disenfranchising Black voters. Once Republicans are finished suppressing Black votes, women are next, gay Americans will follow, and...

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