Melissa Harris-Perry's Black Girl Joy Is Back - a podcast by Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza welcomes award winning author, professor, and political commentator, Melissa Harris-Perry. Harris-Perry is the co-creator and co-host, along with Dorian Warren, of the podcast System Check. Garza asks Harris-Perry about her experience in the public eye, and what should we be paying attention to politically in 2021. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of everything good and awful. 

Melissa Harris-Perry on Twitter.

The podcast System Check from The Nation.

Lady Don't Take No on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

Alicia Garza on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.

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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