Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs invites you to the Fall 2020 virtual
LILLIE AND NATHAN ACKERMAN LECTURE SERIES ON EQUALITY AND JUSTICE

Voting Rights and Vote Suppression, Race, and Perceptual Divides in the 2020 Election

Wednesday November 18, 2020
7:00pm-8:30pm (EST)

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Guest Speaker: Thomas B. Edsall

In this lecture, Thomas B. Edsall, an award-winning New York Times journalist, analyzes how race, voting rights and vote suppression, and several divides in American society (Urban-Rural, alternate internet "realities," etc) worked in the 2020 Elections, and what the implications are for the future of American democracy.

Mr. Edsall is an online opinion columnist for The New York Times, where he writes about strategic and demographic trends in American politics. Prior to joining the Times, he covered national politics for The Washington Post for 25 years and was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and The Providence Journal. He has written five books: The Age of Austerity, Building Red America, Chain Reaction, Power and Money: Writing About Politics and The New Politics of Inequality. From 2006 to 2014, Edsall served as the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach in an adjunct capacity.