The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (VIDEO): America’s Got Suppression

08.25.2020
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (VIDEO): America's Got Suppression

Co-hosts Roy Wood, Jr. and Desi Lydic interview three contestants, including Common Cause's Vashti Hinton-Smith whose vote is suppressed by gerrymandering that split the North Carolina A&T campus into two congressional districts, diluting the voting power of students at the HBCU campus. And HBCU Democracy Fellow Jaden Peay had his vote suppressed by onerous Voter ID laws. 

Co-hosts Roy Wood, Jr. and Desi Lydic interview three contestants, including Common Cause’s Vashti Hinton-Smith whose vote is suppressed by gerrymandering that split the North Carolina A&T campus into two congressional districts, diluting the voting power of students at the HBCU campus. And HBCU Democracy Fellow Jaden Peay had his vote suppressed by onerous Voter ID laws.

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