Alicia Garza is the principal at Black Futures Lab and the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network.

California is not seen as one of those places that has a high density of Black people, and therefore it's not seen as a place where Black culture is innovated. But it should be.

Notes and references from this episode: 

@aliciagarza - Franklin Leonard on Twitter 

Black Futures Lab - home page 

Black Census Project - home page

“Lady Don’t Take No” with Alicia Garza - Apple Podcasts

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, by Alicia Garza

Dr. Espanola Jackson Day proclamation - City of San Francisco 

June Jordan - Academy of American Poets

“Shock G, Leader Of Hip-Hop's Digital Underground, Dies At 57,” - by Rodney Carmichael, NPR

“Thinkin’ About Merl Saunders” - The Grateful Dead 

Black Census Project - home page

Congresswoman Barbara Lee - home page

“Why Barbara Lee Voted Against the War in Afghanistan,” - by Andrea González-Ramírez, The Cut

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