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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Black Lives Matter Cofounder Alicia Garza on What It Takes to Create a Movement

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Alicia Garza, one of the founders of Black Lives Matter. They talk about where Black Lives Matter originated (4:53), debunk some myths about the organization (14:24), and grade Biden's plans for Black Americans (25:49). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Alicia Garza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for turning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:15.0

Thank you so much for everyone who's tuned into our live episodes.

0:19.0

They have been amazing.

0:20.0

Shout out to my good friend Andrew Gillum with real talk with Andrew

0:25.1

Gillum found exclusively on quake media. Shout out to Angela Rye for

0:29.9

on one with Angela Rye and you know Ebony Williams Charlemagne the God

0:35.2

we have a great thing going here at the Bacardle Sellers podcast and I just want to thank everyone

0:39.7

for subscribing downloading sharing with your friends, talking to me, tweeting me,

0:45.0

DMing me, thank you so very much for everything. Today we'll be

0:48.9

interviewing my sister and friend at leastia Garza from the Black Futures Lab, and the literal creator of the

0:55.8

phrase Black Lives Matter and one of the movement for Black Lives, leading thinkers.

1:01.6

But before I get to Alicia, let's talk about the first 100 days of a Biden

1:06.6

Harris administration. You know, we've been dealing with everything else, but let's talk

1:11.7

substantively about the first 100 days.

1:14.8

I know you shouldn't count your eggs before they hatch in politics but I'm going to do

1:18.5

that right now. We'll talk a lot on this show about Black American, what Black America should come to expect from a Biden-Harras administration,

1:27.0

and how we can best go about shaping it in a way that reflects the moment that we're in and the vital role our votes played in delivering

1:36.4

a Biden Harris White House in the first place.

1:40.5

If we've learned anything from this episode with Ice Cube, it's that Black Power can't operate in isolation and hope to be effective.

1:48.5

My hope would be that there is a unified effort across Black economic justice, social justice, criminal

1:54.8

justice, and other interest groups to present a unified front on executive action, legislative

2:01.2

ask and personnel ask of a Biden Harris administration.

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