Alicia Garza is joined by Bakari Sellers, author of the New York Times Best Selling book, My Vanishing Country: A Memoir. Garza asks Sellers about his experience being the youngest state representative in South Carolina and the youngest black elected official in the country, and what he’s learned about politics since that time. Plus, Garza brings all of the real with her weekly roundup of all that’s good and awful from the past week.

Bakari Sellers on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook

Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook

Alicia Garza on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & Facebook

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.