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Voting Rights after Jan. 6: Harold Meyerson, plus Eric Foner & Henry Louis Gates

2022/1/7
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It looks like Joe Manchin will torpedo filibuster reform, this killing voting rights legislation: Harold Meyerson reports from Washington. Also: Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates talk about W.E.B. DuBois, the Black historian and activist of the first part of the 20th century, and his book Black Reconstruction 1860-1880—published originally in 1935, and out now in a new edition from the Library of America, edited by Foner and Gates. Plus: Adam Hochschild on his book "Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes.”