“Black Lives Matter” has become a rallying cry for racial justice—as well as a highly organized movement—around the world, but for its co-founder Alicia Garza, its was a childhood spent with a mother who never hesitated to call out injustice in everyday life, and raised her firstborn child to do the same. Now principal of Black Futures Lab, Garza is working to dismantle the dynamics that make inequality possible at a policy level, the next phase of a career that will always be rooted in grassroots activism.
Those roots are retraced in Garza’s first book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When Things Fall Apart (Penguin Random House), which deputed last October. Now out in paperback, Garza explains the purpose of The Purpose of Power on this week’s episode of The Root Presents: It’s Lit! podcast.
