Episode Details

On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore discusses the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and details American history, the VRA's history and passage, culminating in LBJ's signing the bill into law exactly sixty years ago today. Also: LBJ's speech and signing ceremony audio. Plus: Yesterday, today and tomorrow and the freedom movement in America.

Recorded August 6, 2025.

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RECOMMENDED READS

Omar's latest article on Substack (subscribe!)

"A Few Of The Restaurants In San Francisco Where Black People Can Expect Hostility And Racism" (August 6, 2025)

https://mooreo.substack.com/p/a-partial-list-of-san-francisco-restaurants?r=275tyr

BOOKS

"Black Reconstruction In America: 1860-1880", by W.E.B. DuBois

"Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution - 1863-1877", by Eric Foner

"Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos Or Community", by Martin Luther King, Jr

"The Passage To Power", by Robert Caro

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