THE VOTE AND THE VETO: Black Voting Rights, Then and Now

In one week, three moments in Black history — 68 years apart — collide on the calendar. The Civil Rights Act of 1957. The Little Rock Nine. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. All three come back to the same fight: who gets to vote, who enforces that right, and who has tried to violently stop it. That fight isn't history. It's happening in the U.S. Senate right now. In this episode of Rethinking Freedom, we trace the full arc — from Reconstruction to Shelby County v. Holder to the curre...