Washington, DC (Bolts)

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she'd moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then to Milwaukee, with no birth certificate, which made it hard to prove her identity for government purposes, including voter registration. It took her more than 20 years to finally resolve the matter and, in 1992, she became the first person in her family to vote.

Decades later, when T.R. started working as a voting rights organizer in Milwaukee, he was dismayed to find versions of his grandmother's story all over the city, with young adults and old folks alike struggling to meet the state's rules for proving their identity, a prerequisite to voting, particularly on the m

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