Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’ – podcast
Hosted by Kai Wright, produced by Anabel Baconand Monica Espitia, engineered by Ivan Kuraev, executive producer Jonathan Menjivar, Source: the Guardian
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 forw