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This Is Karen Hunter

S E421: Latosha Brown: "Keep Your Eye on the Prize!"

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Latosha Brown, master organizer and founder of Black Voters Matter, talks about how she got involved with getting people to register and then vote and how the vote is just one tool in building power. She keeps her eye on the prize! #LatoshaBrown #BlackVotersMatter #Selma #KarenHunterShow

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0:00.0

This lady's name has been synonymous with this election season in terms of what it looks like to get involved.

0:19.0

And you know, for those of you who do not know her you know now's the time these are the

0:25.2

these are the names we should be talking about these are the names we should have

0:28.8

been talking about all along because this is the work that's being done that very few people want to do by the way.

0:35.2

So she's going to talk to us about the blueprint of what she's done and she is the co-founder of

0:40.0

Black Voters Matter. She's one of the reasons why Georgia right now

0:44.8

is sitting firmly in a blue spot and Stacey Abrams may be governor.

0:48.4

We may have two senators coming out of that state

0:50.2

because of the work she's done, other others let me welcome to the show

0:54.8

for the first time miss Latasha Brown thank you for coming through.

0:58.2

Thank you having me sister thank you for having me, sister. Thank you for having the audience.

1:03.0

Listen, you know, we, we, a lot of us, you know, Mike jockeys, you know, keyboard jockeys,

1:10.0

you know, they talk about empowerment and I, I'm gonna put myself in that position very few of us out there

1:15.3

in the streets and out there during a pandemic out there when nobody no cameras are there

1:22.0

take us all the way back, Latasha,

1:24.0

to the first time that you decided that you were going to do something.

1:27.0

Well, the first thing I did right

1:32.0

was the day I started to fight.

1:35.9

Keep your eyes on the prize and hold on, hold on.

1:42.4

You know, that's a song from I call Eyes on the Prize and there was a film called

1:48.3

Eyes on the Prize that documented what happened in the 60s. And so I'm a native of Selma,

1:54.4

which was instrumental in the Voting Rights Movement. And so while I wasn't around

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