Marc Meredith of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed misconceptions about efforts to restore voting rights to former felons. “It’s pretty clear, people often overestimate how African-American the ex-felon population is,” Meredith said. “The majority of people in prison in almost every state are white. But a disproportionate share are black. Somehow, that’s been lost.”

April 5, 2019 ・ From NBC News