Uphill and Onward with Jemele Hill

Alicia Garza welcomes back Jemele Hill, author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Uphill. Garza asks Hill about her experience sharing her family’s struggles publicly in her memoir, and their reaction to her book. Also Hill breaks down the monumental shifts that are happening in news media.

Alicia’s roundup focuses on the orange menace possibly getting prison time, Ajike Owens* killed by her white neighbor, and Lateefah Simon running for Congress!

*Contribute to the “Justice for Ajike Owens and Her Children” gofundme campaign.

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Jemele’s podcast: Jemele Hill is Unbothered

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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. Alicia was recently named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, alongside her BLM co-founders Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Penguin Random House),  and she warns you -- hashtags don’t start movements. People do.