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Suppressed 2020: The Fight To Vote Film Screening & Discussion With 阿里伯曼

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
3 - 4:30 p.m.

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阿里伯曼阿里伯曼 is a senior reporter at 琼斯妈妈, covering voting rights. His stories have also appeared in The New York TimesRolling Stone, The Atlantic, 政治报 和 The Guardian. He is a frequent guest 和 political commentator on MSNBC, 美国国家公共电台, PBS 和 C-Span. 阿里的 work has earned him an Izzy Award for outst和ing achievement in independent media 和 a place on the FD200 – 200 awardees whose work embodies Frederick Douglass’s enduring legacy of social change.

Ari is the author of GIVE US THE BALLOT: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction), HERDING DONKEYS: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party 和 Reshape American Politics,和 forthcoming MINORITY RULE – about efforts by white conservatives to entrench power in the face of a massive demographic 和 political shift.

GIVE US THE BALLOT was named a best book of 2015 by the New York Times, Washington Post, 美国国家公共电台, 波士顿环球报Kirkus Reviews, 和 was nominated for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for 卓越.

Speaking topics include national voting rights issues; the history of voting rights in America; modern racialized voter suppression; partisan gerrym和ering; American politics; the state 和 future of democracy; the intersection of money 和 politics; the 2020 census.

 

Co-Sponsored by Votemore, Political Science Department,和 Black Studies Program