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Why Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions Matters

Kareemah Hanifa is an Atlanta-based community organizer and activist who helps people with felony convictions restore their voting rights. She leads the Inner-City Muslim Action Network’s No Taxation Without Representation campaign, fighting state laws that bar many Georgians with criminal records from casting ballots.  But Hanifa was advocating for people behind bars decades before she […]

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