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Ebb, Flow, and Fire: Alicia Garza on Black Lives Matter
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In this debut episode of How We Build This, host May Boeve is joined by Alicia Garza—co-creator of Black Lives Matter and one of the most influential movement architects of our time. Together, they talk about the origin stories behind BLM, what it really means to build people power, and the personal and political moments that shaped the movement. Alicia also shares unexpected reflections, from imagining a dream job naming nail polish with Rihanna, to unpacking the 2024 election. It’s a raw, hopeful, and necessary conversation about how movements rise, fall, evolve—and persist.
To dig deeper on topics discussed in this episode:
Alicia Garza's book: The Purpose of Power
About “I believe Anita Hill”
About the Ferguson uprising
Heather McGhee's book, The Sum of Us
How We Build This is created and hosted by May Boeve
Producer: Phil Surkis
Theme music: ‘Within’, composed by Ruthie Dineen, and performed by Negative Press Project.
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