Climate change, a major concern of this week’s United Nations General Assembly, affects people across the globe through immigration, food production and the economy, to name a few. But as Ashley K. Shelton tells Mary C. Curtis, climate change is also spurring voter suppression. Shelton, who leads the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice and is a founding member of the Black Southern Women’s Collective, is turning her attention to policies that need to be in place to ensure that Americans disproportionately affected by devastating weather events can fully participate in democracy.

Show Notes:

• Reconciliation, infrastructure and the social safety net
• MLK III: ‘Listen with your ears, hear with your heart’
• ‘This is about whether or not we will have a democracy or an autocracy,’ Clyburn says on voting rights
• ‘The flag would still be flying today’
• The education gap