Demos President Taifa Smith Butler joins Colin to discuss Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, the Biden administration's economic agenda, and extremist attacks on education.
For too long, Black and brown people have been kept out of the promise of our democracy. If we are serious about building a just, multiracial democracy, we must restore the VRA and expand opportunities for participation in our democracy.
“In their genesis, they’re about preventing Black people in the South from voting. So especially in our pursuit of a multiracial, inclusive democracy, these laws can’t exist.”
South Dakota's public assistance agencies and motor vehicle offices are regularly failing to provide voter registration services to individuals, in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
Angela joins Moms Rising CEO Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner to talk worker power and a new generation of unions, and why a multiracial democracy is essential for a thriving economy.
How this Executive Order can be a tool to fight voter suppression, and why President Biden and the agencies cannot waste any more time in seeing it through.
Saira Malik, Nuveen CIO, Jason Furman, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and former CEA chair, Tyler Goodspeed, Cato Institute adjunct scholar and former acting CEA chairman, and Angela Hanks, chief of programs at Demos, join CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to react to September's key jobs report.
Young people are finding more inspiration than ever to vote and participate in the political process. President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting offers significant opportunities to make voter registration easier for youth voters.
In the midst of extreme efforts to undermine our democracy we need our government to take urgent action to protect and promote the fundamental right to vote
Fifty-seven years ago, the Voting Rights Act became law. Today we find our democracy regressed in a moment eerily similar to that turning point in 1965.