Alicia Garza is joined this week by her friend Ericka Huggins, a human rights activist who served a 14 year tenure as the leader of the Black Panther Party. Huggins shares how she joined the Black Panthers, her time as a political prisoner, and how she found personal freedom. Plus, Garza’s weekly roundup of all the things, also 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.