Alicia Garza is joined this week by dream hampton, an Emmy nominated filmmaker and writer from Detroit. Garza and hampton chat about the TV shows they love during lockdown, the 7th anniversary of Black Lives Matter, and how to reconcile personal politics with taking a tactical political approach to keep the world from combusting? Plus, Garza’s weekly round up of all that’s good and awful, known as “Lady Don’t Take No”.

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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. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published in October 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.