Born out of a social media post, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked discussion about race and inequality across the world. In this spirited conversation with Mia Birdsong, the movement’s three founders share what they’ve learned about leadership and what provides them with hope and inspiration in the face of painful realities. Their advice on how to participate in ensuring freedom for everybody: join something, start something and “sharpen each other, so that we all can rise.”
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Interesting, Ted Talks about Social Justice
An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
March 20, 2017
More from this series:
- The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Islamophobia killed my brother. Let’s end the hate | Suzanne Barakat
- A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system | Adam Foss
- How we talk about sexual assault online | Ione Wells
- An artist’s unflinching look at racial violence | Sanford Biggers
- It’s time for women to run for office | Halla Tómasdóttir
- America’s forgotten working class | J.D. Vance
- An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter | Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi
- Why gun violence can’t be our new normal | Dan Gross