Kickin’ That Science with Boots Riley - a podcast by Alicia Garza

from 2021-02-19T10:00

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Alicia Garza welcomes musician (The Coup, Street Sweeper Social Club), filmmaker (Sorry To Bother You) and activist, Boots Riley. Garza asks Boots about the origin of his name, why Oakland is so political, and what inspired him to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2020. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of everything good and awful.

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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. 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. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do. 

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