Desmond Meade

An update from the Florida Bar condo task force, voting rights leader Desmond Meade, and the film ‘Gringa’

A Florida Bar task force has presented proposals on how to make condo living better and safer after Surfside. We meet the man who was central to helping Florida felons get their voting rights back. And a dramedy film about a Cuban-American woman packing for a family trip to Havana.

After success in Florida, civil rights leader says support for voting rights for felons is growing

Daniel Rivero

Desmond Meade was recently named as a MacArthur Foundation fellow for 2021 — commonly known as a “genius" grant. WLRN spoke to him about that honor and his activism in passing Amendment 4 in 2018.

Florida felon voting activist Desmond Meade gets civil rights back

The Associated Press

The Florida activist who led a movement to allow most former felons to vote got more civil rights restored under a new state clemency program.

Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, arrives with family members at the Supervisor of Elections office in Orlando in January 2019 to register to vote. Meade's group works to restore voting rights to felons.

Florida's New Clemency Process Is A 'Huge' Marker Of Progress, Says Civil Rights Leader

Daniel Rivero

Hundreds of thousands of Floridians could be eligible to get their civil rights restored.

<em>Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens,</em> by Desmond Meade

'Let My People Vote' Tells Of One Man's Journey To Getting 1.4 Million Back A Voice

Martha Anne Toll

Desmond Meade rose from addiction, homelessness, and prison to run a campaign to re-enfranchise more than one million Florida voters; it's a tale of hope, persistence, and the power of organizing.