Smithsonian Exhibit - Voices and Votes: Democracy in America : Streaming Media and YouTube

Fifty years ago, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law -- breaking down legal barriers at the state and local level that had prevented African Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote. Because of the sacrifice of countless men and women, the right to vote was secured for more Americans.

Allegations of voter fraud and disenfranchisement in the lead-up to the 2020 election. With Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb investigates how the pandemic is being used to sway turnout.