How Black Americans have been blocked from voting throughout U.S. history

This article is from Market Place by Reema Khrais, Hayley Hershman, and Beth Pearlman:

Gilda R. Daniels, associate professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and litigation director of the Advancement Projects national office, spent more than two decades working on voting rights, including as a deputy chief in the Civil Rights Division voting section at the U.S. Department of Justice. She has investigated, negotiated and litigated cases involving the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the National Voter Registration Act and other voting statutes.

Daniels spoke to “This is Uncomfortable” host Reema Khrais about her new book, “Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America” and about America’s history of disenfranchising Black voters and other voters of color that continues today.  Daniels reaches back into her own family history to illustrate the devastating economic and political ramifications of voter suppression and discrimination.

The following transcript has been condensed and edited for clarity.

Read the full transcript here.