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  • 11/4 Tomorrow: Voter Rights, Voter Suppression

    Ari Berman

    Voter Rights, Voter Suppression

    Friday November 4, 2016 

    3:00 pm 

    Konover Auditorium, The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

     

    Ari Berman is a senior contributing writer for The Nation magazine and a Reporting Fellow at The Nation Institute. Business Insider named Berman one of the “50 most influential political pundits” in the US. He’s written extensively about American politics, civil rights, and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have also appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The AtlanticPolitico and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, NPR and C-Span. His new book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was published in August 2015.

     A book signing and reception will follow after the lecture.

     

    For more information, contact: Africana Studies at africana@uconn.edu