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Policing at the Polls & BIPOC Voter Suppression in 2024

Season 1 Episode 126 | 26m 46s

Voting should be simple, but we’re seeing more and more barriers — especially for BIPOC voters — this election. From efforts to eliminate same-day voter registration, new voter-ID laws, and vigilante style “election integrity” watchdogs turning up at the polls, voters in many states and tribal nations face serious challenges they’re working hard to overcome. Will all who want to vote be able to?

Aired: 04/04/24 | Expires: 04/04/25
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
BIPOC media cover people, places & perspectives beyond the conventional enclaves of power.
Election ads are filling the news vacuum with misinformation and lies. What is to be done?
How can reformers counter the rhetoric around crime and migration to advance alternatives?
Bloomberg's Stephanie Flanders shares what we should look out for this election year.
Angela Davis talks Palestine, elections, our carceral state and collective liberation.
Artist Ai Weiwei discusses how we keep the doors of our minds open to possibility
Gender-conscious policy can support homeless women who are domestic violence survivors.
Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day but the ideas behind the holiday are urgent.
How do we end political violence, protect one another and democracy itself?
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BIPOC media cover people, places & perspectives beyond the conventional enclaves of power.
Election ads are filling the news vacuum with misinformation and lies. What is to be done?
How can reformers counter the rhetoric around crime and migration to advance alternatives?
Bloomberg's Stephanie Flanders shares what we should look out for this election year.
Angela Davis talks Palestine, elections, our carceral state and collective liberation.
Artist Ai Weiwei discusses how we keep the doors of our minds open to possibility
Gender-conscious policy can support homeless women who are domestic violence survivors.
Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day but the ideas behind the holiday are urgent.
How do we end political violence, protect one another and democracy itself?