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Desmond Meade joins us this week to discuss how his movement transcended partisan politics to restore voting rights to millions of people in Florida.

Chris Fowler, a geography professor at Penn State, joins us this week to examine redistricting and gerrymandering from a different perspective that we often hear from political science and good government groups.

6:45 On a recent Sunday afternoon, Tierra Williams and Rich Biever co-hosted a “politics and poetry” event at the Tudek Park in State College.  “The purpose of this event is to gather in the name of change,” Biever announced.  Both Biever and Williams are candidates in this year’s municipal elections. Williams is running for a seat on the Ferguson Township Board of Supervisors and Biever is a candidate for the State College Borough Council. They’re backed by Central Pennsylvania United, a local advocacy group trying to bring candidates with progressive platforms to local office....

Pew Research and other surveys have painted millennials as a more inclusive demographic than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, suggesting a post-racial America is on the horizon. But actions speak louder than words. A new housing study by a white UCLA sociology professor S. Michael Gaddis suggests that notion may be a misconception. Gaddis used a research method known as a “correspondence audit” to examine millennials’ decision-making in a deeply personal real-world scenario: picking a new roommate. Gaddis and his co-author Raj Ghosal, a sociology professor at Elon Uni...