and carol anderson, chair of the african american studies at emory university. she is the author of "one person, no vote" and most recently, the second. racing guns in a fatally unequal america. thank you both for joining tonight. ezra, let me start with you. even without build back better. ordinary americans are better off now economically. you point out in your piece that the analysis found the immediate households taking account balance was 50% higher in july 2021 than in the months before the pandemic. that's astonishing. why isn't that translating into a higher approval rating for president biden? >> it's a really striking finding. you gotta think about what the biden administration did on two levels. one, they tried to not allow the mistakes to repeat. so when they came back with the correct, and the rescue plan. they came back with the infrastructure. that was a huge thing for the country. the transfer, the child tax credit, a lot among in those bills. so you put that with the labor market and you get these numbers. very low unemployment, very high asset

we go to georgia to speak with professor carol anderson. among her books, "white rage" and "one person, no vote." ♪♪ [music break] amy: "lift every voice and sing" performed by alicia keys. a version of this song was played yesterday at the louisiana ceremony for governor john bel edwards issued a posthumous pardon to plessy. the supreme court case plessy versus ferguson came out of this, which upheld the separate but equal doctrine. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. more than 200 vigils and events across the united states today will mark the first anniversary of the deadly january 6 insurrection at the capitol, when a largely white mob of trump supporters tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election and subvert democracy. many of today's events will focus on voting rights as former president trump's false claims about voter fraud have fueled republican efforts to restrict voting access. senate majority leader chuck schumer vowed tuesday to proceed with a vote to change

and carol anderson also worked on the core of engineers so it was a very interesting project and process but we basically came up with the design that was submitted by a couple from new york, and essentially a memorial unit for each person that died and was arranged according to the age of the lives of the victims starting with a three -year-old little girl, was on flight 77 all of the late up to 71 -year-old victim it was also on the flight brady and i described as an individual or collective memorial that tells the story about what happened that day because each memorial unit is arranged according to the age that the victim was more. ... and we work closely with the department of defense to design and build a memorial dedicated september 2008 with 3 9/11 memorials in this country and i remember talking about what family members wanted. they wanted people to remember loved ones and we wanted people to remember what happened and they wanted people to remember that feeling of unity that came through with our country after 9/11 and bringing people together to convert all those who were in

and ezra klein and carol anderson, is saying that the biden presidency isn't going as planned. evening from washington d.c., in for chris hayes. long before donald trump had any real presidential language, republican controlled states across the country were disenfranchising people of color, in fact the modern era of the voting rights struggle began before the 2020 election.

. >>> and ezra klein and carol anderson on why the biden presidency isn't quite going as planned when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from washington, d.c. i'm in for chris hayes. long before donald trump had any real presidential ambitions, republican-controlled states across the country were disenfranchising people of color. the modern era of the voting rights struggle began before the 2020 election, began more than two decades ago with the 2000 presidential election of george w. bush versus al gore. that election, of course, came down to the state of florida, and a paper-thin 537 vote margin of victory for george bush. in its wake, the u.s. commission on civil rights conducted an investigation of florida's election process and found, quote, widespread voter disenfranchisement that fell most harshly on the shoulders of black voters. they concluded that statewide black voters were ten times more likely than non-black voters to have their ballots rejected. multiple issues contributed to this. but one of the most significant was a purge of tens of thousands of alleged felon

it's entitled "one person, no vote" and the book is written by carol anderson, who's become a friend of mine. carol is a professor in african american studies at emory university in georgia, and she writes the history of reconstruction and jim crow. i want to read just a small section of this book to put in perspective what was happening. here it was, a civil war in this country, with over half a million americans dead, with inflamed feelings on both sides of the war, and afterwards, for the first time, african americans, because of the war and because of constitutional amendments, were going to be enfranchised, actually be allowed to vote. and of course, when they did turn up in great numbers, they ended up electing their own and electing people who were sympathetic to their cause. well, there was a backlash, primarily among democrats in the south, and that backlash led to jim crow during reconstruction and the suppression of the right to vote. it was horrible. i want to read one part of this book and carol anderson's book "one person, no vote." she writes, that became most apparent

and my friend -- and she is my friend -- carol anderson, a professor at emory university in atlanta,, has written a book called "one man, no vote." she flattered me and asked me to write the forward to the book, which i gladly did, and then read it and thought, what an incredible story it tells about us and america and the battle to win the vote. i remember -- i was young and fresh out of college and law school -- when martin luther king martin luther king came to the city of chicago. i remember it well because i was working on a political campaign and it made all the headlines. dr. martin luther king jr. decided to walk through marquette park. that particular parade, that protest, drew violence from people dressed in nazi uniforms throwing rocks at him and jeering at those who supported his effort. i remember that because nowadays when you talk about dr. martin luther king jr.'s day of observance, which coming up next week, people have a tendency to think about that in gentle and positive terms, and it should be. but let's not forget the price he paid -- ultimately miss life -- to d

during the mass shooting were 50 people also lives in his evidence by what carol and goodman did on the scene. an interview with anderson cooper, the deadliest mass shooting and us history became one of the most forgotten. most of the american public, fairly remembers that it happens that just shows you the power of money in las vegas. ah, it's a town that was built by the mob built on corruption and with corporations in charge, it's just a different kind of corrupt phase was a different town. i mean, don't get me wrong, lamar went away angels, these guys were savages. but when the town was less corporate, it was a much better town. i think they're challenged out what it should be and what it was green is what's ruining los vegas. where else does that happen? where it entity with see the victims because they dropped the ball all in las vegas . the corruption came when the mob left as far as i'm concerned. ah ah with i was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 lives when the doctors told me the cancer was incurable. i knew i had to make a change. so i decided to travel to one of the most toxic places in america. florida. one of