New restrictive voting laws in states across the country present obstacles to the polls via voter ID laws, voter role purges, and poll closures. The collective impact on American citizens’ right to vote follows the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment and women’s suffrage. In this episode of Intersections: The RIT Podcast, Nickesia Gordon, associate professor in the School of Communication at RIT, and 2021 criminal justice alumna Trinity McFadden, explore the convergence of race, gender and voting rights with historian Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University.

Read a transcript of this episode:http://www.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu/files/docs/podcast-transcripts/MovingForwardPodcastTranscript.pdf