Showing videos filed under: Video the Vote

• Video The Vote: Repair The Electoral System

  November 6, 2008

  There's plenty that needs to be fixed about our electoral system. The landslide for Obama is thrilling, but we continue to hear stories of messed-up ballots. Here's some voices from Video the Vote, produced by Sanford Lewis and Jonathan Mena. A retired judge in Ohio narrowly avoids disenfranchisement, as do citizens in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

  • Ballot
  • Mena
  • Sanford Lewis
  • Video the Vote
  • voet fraud
  • vote
  • vote fraud

• A Mind Bending Accomplishment, Creating a Mandate, and The New Majority

  November 5, 2008

  Manning Marable, a professor of history at Columbia University, says that Barack Obama’s victory is a “mind-bending accomplishment.” Marable, who at 58 remembers Jim Crow well, says that by electing Barack Obama we have lived black history and remade American history at the same time. Forty Seven Years after the Freedom Ride Campaign to register African-American voters in the Jim Crow South, the United States has elected its first African-American president.

  • american news project
  • civil rights
  • grittv
  • jim crow
  • katrina vanden heuvel
  • laura flanders
  • Malia Lazu
  • Manning Marable
  • Steve Cobble
  • The Gathering for Justice
  • The Nation Magazine
  • Video the Vote
  • Year at the Wheel