No Constitutional Right to Vote
L. Joy and June are joined by Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., General Counsel of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College, CUNY to discuss voter registration in advance of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 26th. We also chat with voting rights advocate Barbara Arnwine on how we vote links back to slavery, millennials vote potential, how the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights act and more.
OPENING Excerpt from the Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 30, 1976. Interview G-0017. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
#CIVICDOCKET - 06:35 A few of the civic related stories we discussed on the show that you may have missed in mainstream media. Follow the hashtag #CivicDocket on Twitter or view more here.
Conservatives Are Coming for Your Voting Rights—And Your State Might Be Next - Rewire http://bit.ly/2xjvUjW
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No business, no boozing, no casual sex: when Togo turned off the internet | Mawuna Koutonin http://bit.ly/2fm3Aqa
Annual BWR/Essence Poll of Black Women Voters Shows 11% Drop in Support for Democrats http://bit.ly/2fB6bZV
FEATURE TOPIC - 35:17 Don't debate L. Joy, she explains that although there are six constitutional amendments related to voting, "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote...". Each state determines who has the right to vote and that's why it is important to not only be registered but to also participate in local and state elections.
GUEST INTERVIEW - 41:36 Barbara R. Arnwine, Esq, president & founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, is internationally renowned for contributions on critical justice issues including the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991 and the 2006 reauthorization of provisions of the Voting Rights Act. She also created the legendary Voting Rights “Map of Shame” in 2011, which remains popular. A graduate of Scripps College and Duke University School of Law, she continues to champion civil rights and racial justice issues nationally and internationally in the areas of housing and lending, community development, employment, voting, education, and environmental justice. Ms. Arnwine’s work also includes women’s rights, immigrant rights, judicial diversity, criminal justice reform, racial profiling, health care disparities and LBGTQ rights. A prominent leader in the civil and human rights community, she continues to fight for the preservation of affirmative action and diversity programs.
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