Dr. Carol Anderson Dissects Voter Suppression, Past and Present, for PBS’s ‘NewsHour’

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently a guest on the PBS NewsHour program “America, Interrupted.” Titled “Why voter suppression continues and how the pandemic has made it worse,” the episode includes Anderson’s insights into the history of voter suppression and how such practices continue through the present. Anderson is, mostly recently, the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2018). Watch the episode here.