Alicia Garza welcomes Amanda Brown Lierman, The Executive Director of Supermajority and Supermajority Education Fund. Amanda shares about how she got involved in Supermajority, and her vision for the organization, and what she knows is key to winning the midterm elections. Plus, Alicia's weekly roundup of all the news you can use, including  the supreme courts decision on Roe  v Wade, Brittney Griner, and the civl trial of Bill Cosby. 

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Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook & YouTube

This pod is supported by the Black Futures Lab

Production by Phil Surkis

Theme music: "Lady Don't Tek No" by Latyrx

Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. She is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. Garza serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. Alicia was recently named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.