The Real Work of LaTosha Brown

Lady Don't Take No

Alicia Garza is joined this week by award-winning organizer, political strategist and jazz singer, LaTosha Brown. Brown is the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund. Garza and Brown cover everything from coffee, to mobilizing Black voters, to how to help protect democracy. Plus, Garza’s weekly round-up of all things awful and wonderful known as “Lady Don’t Take No”.

LaTosha Brown on Twitter and Instagram.

Learn about the Black Voters Matter Fund.

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. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month. Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House) will be published in October 2020, and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.

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