Tarana Burke and Prentis Hemphill Are Unashamed - a podcast by Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza is joined by Tarana Burke, the Founder and Director of the “Me Too.” Movement, and by Prentis Hemphill, the Founding Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative. The conversation is centered around a recently released collection of essays co-edited by Burke and Brené Brown titled You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Plus, Garza’s round up of all that’s good and awful from the past week.

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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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