In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down elements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, angering those already worried about voter disenfranchisement. Carol Anderson, chair of African American Studies at Emory University, joins us to talk about how photo ID laws, gerrymandering and poll closures discriminate against people of color, which she writes about in “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy” (Bloomsbury).
In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. Eric Gay/AP Photo
