Desmond Meade

Desmond Meade, a prominent voting rights activist and president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, was honored with a street renaming ceremony.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.