Race and the Ballot Box, 50 Years after the Voting Rights Act
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Just months away from primary voting in the next presidential election, the voting rights of blacks and Latinos are the subject of charges and counter-charges.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. |
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| 0:17.9 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:25.9 | 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, race, and the ballot box. |
| 0:33.5 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, |
| 0:37.4 | a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. The 1965 Voting Rights Act paved the way |
| 0:42.4 | for black voters in states where they'd been denied the franchise, despite the Bill of Rights |
| 0:46.7 | and the Civil War. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that enforcement wasn't needed anymore. |
| 0:53.2 | Now, Alabama's accused of trying again to keep blacks away from the polls. The Supreme Court ruled that enforcement wasn't needed anymore. Now, Alabama's accused of trying again to keep blacks away from the polls. |
| 0:57.5 | The Supreme Court's being asked to rule that Latinos get an unfair advantage. It's all about voter ID, the drawing of district boundaries, and the Constitution. |
| 1:06.9 | Today's talking point charges of insider trading in the multi-billion dollar industry of fantasy sports, |
| 1:12.7 | legalized gambling with almost no regulation. First, the news. |
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| 1:45.3 | Hello again, Warren Olney, back with To the Point. In Alabama and at the U.S. Supreme Court, |
| 1:49.6 | the voting rights of blacks and Latinos are the subject of charges and countercharges |
| 1:53.4 | just months away from primary voting in the next presidential election. |
| 1:57.6 | Today's talking point, fantasy sports mean real money for fans, two big companies, |
| 2:02.9 | and even some real football franchise owners. Now charges of insider trading are leading to calls |
| 2:08.2 | for some form of regulation. First is news update. After the bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan, |
| 2:13.7 | Doctors Without Borders has accused the U.S. military of a war crime. |
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