To stay connected. Vicks vapopatch. Easy to wear with soothing vicks vapors for her, for you, for the whole family. Trusted soothing vapors, from vicks thanks for joining us. Tonight, covid19 inflicting a deadly toll on rural towns. Once seemingly insulated from the pandemic, now struggling to survive as Health Care Workers grapple with a death toll topping 250,000. Heres Steve Osunsami with the abc news investigation into a quarter million, americas loss. Reporter here in the heart of rural georgia for those trying to give up, for those struggling with covid19 reporter reverend Willard Weston praying for mercy from the coronavirus. A proper understanding, have mercy right now in the name of jesus reporter begging the lord to keep it from stealing more lives. Let us understand, lord, it cant be our way, it cant be my way, it has to be your way. And when you have spoken, lord, we must submit ourselves unto thee, amen. Reporter at Sardis Baptist church in dawson, this is what services lo
Goes by, we are getting better. You to keepst ask everybody in your thoughts and your prayers and lets just hope and pray that we will not get too many bumps in the road before we get to the vaccine, the drug that will help us. To tell you we have lost our 68th West Virginia. And 86yearold female from canal county. I just go through it over and over and over. It is a terrib thing to have to do. I want to be really respectable to the people we have lost. I do not want them or their theyies to ever think that were a statistic. We are deeply indebted to all the knowledge and the beauty they gave us through their lives. We absolutely want all of you to think about then and their loved ones and keep them in your thoughts and your prayers. Please do so. You that wead to four withing in week an executive order today that im signing that will allow these businesses to reopen, and so list the 14 day quarantine order for outofstate travelers. Effect atwill go into midnight on thursday, may 21. N
A. M. Eastern, senator elizabeth boston. N watch live on cspan, or listen free cspan radio app. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we feature authors from all side of the political spectrum. Sues. Andersons is carol with her book one person, no vote. Why did you write this book . Guest the book emerged out of two things, one was a 2016 election, and there is when i about,he pundits talking black people did not show up. Blacky lost because people were not feeling hillary. I looked at that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Right
One person, no vote. Why did you write this book . Guest the book emerged out of two things, one was a 2016 election, and there is when i about,he pundits talking black people did not show up. Blacky lost because people were not feeling hillary. I looked at that and it did not make sense because this was the first election in 50 years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. We had a series of laws coming through, targeting africanamericans, so i wanted to lay out how Voter Suppression s. Rks because host what protections were under the Voting Rights act. Passedin 1965, congress the Voting Rights act. It began to deal with the massive disenfranchisement happening particularly in the south. Where you had counties that had a majority black population, but zero africanamericans were registered to vote. What the Voting Rights and did was have a provision called preclarence, meaning certain jurisdictions that had a documented history of discrimination against its citizens had to hav
From all sides of the political spectrum on key Public Policy issues. Joining us today to talk about her book is an africanamerican studies professor at and where university in atlanta. Why did you write this book . The book emerged out of two things. One was the 2016 election. There is what i heard the pundits talking about how you know black people just did not show up. Hillary lost because black people did not show up in hillary lost because my people just were not feeling hillary. And i looked at that and he didnt make any sense because this was the first election in president ial election in years without the protection of the Voting Rights act. And we have had a series of laws coming targeted at africanamericans, so i want to begin to lay out how actually vote or suppression works. Because it is legal to democracy. So what protections were in place before the 2016 election under the Voting Rights act, and what happened to them . Remind our viewers. Passed,65, Congress President L