Alicia Garza is joined this week by artist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, Patrisse Cullors. Garza and Cullors clear up misconceptions about BLM, and take a deep dive into Cullors’ New York Times besting memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir”. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of all things awful and wonderful known as “Lady Don’t Take No”.

Patrisse Cullors on Twitter & Instagram.

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

Alicia Garza on 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. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published on October 20, 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do. 

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