Stateside for Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Today on Stateside, it's Election Day! We spoke with the clerk of Kent County about what voting looks like in a swing district that always delivers suprises. Plus, a look back at how mass illness and social uprisings have impacted past elections.
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Listen to the full show above or find individual segments below.
What Election Day looks like in contested Kent CountyStateside’s conversation with Lisa Posthumus Lyons
- Lisa Posthumus Lyons is the clerk for Kent County.
Pandemic politics: a brief history of how mass illness impacts American electionsStateside’s conversation with Howard Markel
- Dr. Howard Markel is a medical historian at the University of Michigan.
What the political legacy of 1967 Detroit uprising tells us about social justice movements todayStateside’s conversation with Ken Coleman
- Ken Coleman is a journalist with the Michigan Advance and author of the book On This Day: African American Life in Detroit.
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