Activists are claiming that a number of North Carolina’s new voter ID registration laws are hindering many people’s right to vote, and have a specific focus on disenfranchising black and Latino communities. RT’s Ed Schultz is joined by Irving L. Joyner, law professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law, to go deeper into the state’s voting legislation.

Ed Schultz is an American television and radio host, a liberal political commentator, and a former sports broadcaster. He was the host of The Ed Show, a weekday news talk program on MSNBC, and The Ed Schultz Show, a talk radio show, nationally syndicated by Dial Global. Ed has won three Eric Sevareid Awards and has managed and been lead talent for a broadcast team that has won two Marconis and a prestigious Peabody Award. Ed has been named one of the top ten radio hosts in the country by Talkers Magazine for a number of years. Ed Schultz has been a nominee by Syndicated News/Talk Personality of the year by Radio & Records.