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Stacey Abrams: “When the Calais decision gutted the Voting Rights act, the…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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We're talking about agents and managers and makeup artists and hairstylists and costume everybody involved in the entertainment industry, including talk show hosts. And we have about 3,500. 3,500 people as members now, and it's growing all the time. When the Calais decision gutted the Voting Rights act, the conversation I had with my parents was about the fact that my dad was arrested when he was 14 for registering black people to vote in Mississippi. My mom was talking to us about. Talking to me about gerrymandering, and she raised a question, and it hit me that my mother never studied gerrymandering in her program. (21:14–21:27)

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