Barred from Voting

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Over 4 million Americans—mainly poor, black, and Latino—have lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws. In Conned, Sasha Abramsky investigates the impact these laws had on the 2004 Presidential election.

Events: Sasha Abramsky will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, June 21 at 7:30 pm
Greenwich Village Barnes and Noble
396 Avenue of the Americas at 8th Street

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