This segment is a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Federation of State Humanities Councils, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Keyword: Voter Access
Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot with Evette Dionne & Martha S. Jones
Evette Dionne, editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, discusses her Coretta Scott King Author Honor...
Blocked at the Ballot: Voting & Homelessness
Brought to you by the RI Council for the Humanities, a special episode of the Voices of Homelessness podcast.
Throughout American history, there have been many movements to expand the vote to as many Americans as possible. However, there have been just as many attempts to...
More voters in Mississippi cast an absentee ballot in the 2020 general election than ever before. What does this mean for the future of voting in the state? In a special...
Alabama Voices for Black Voters Nationwide
Join series host Tonya Scott-Williams and series poet Ashley M. Jones as they chat with Arnée Odoms (Alabama Coordinator for Black Voters Matter Fund) grassroots...
This segment is a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Federation of State Humanities Councils, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This segment is a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Federation of State Humanities Councils, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The United States has been around for more than 250 years, and the mechanisms for the way people vote has changed as the US matures. Many people wonder what voting can...
This segment is a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Federation of State Humanities Councils, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This segment is a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Federation of State Humanities Councils, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Your Vote, Your Voice: Part 1 with Secretary of State Michael Watson
This segment is a partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Federation of State Humanities Councils, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Who Votes in South Dakota, featuring Professor Frank Pommersheim, State Representative Tamara St. John, and Amy Scott-Stoltz
The final event in SDHC’s Voting: Why It Matters series features South Dakota civic leaders (Professor Frank Pommersheim, Representative Tamara St. John, and Amy...
Throughout Nevada, what barriers do Indigenous people face and what issues do they turn out for? This discussion features Indigenous leaders Janet Davis, Lynn Manning...
What makes voters want to vote? What makes them want to be engaged in a certain election versus another? Dr. Caroline Heldman from Occidental College in Los Angeles and...
Uncounted: The History and Impact of Voter Suppression
This year, 160 bills have been introduced in 33 states that would restrict voting—four times as many as during the same period in 2020. American democracy is often...