Latest Ladyslovenotes Podcast Episodes
Linda Burnham Knows Where The Hope Is
Lady Don't Take No - January 19, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes back activist, writer, and strategist, Linda Burnham. Garza asks Burnham to break down fascism, and what we can do to save our threadbare democracy. Plus, Garza brings all the news you can use with her roundup: 100 days of bloodshed in Gaza, the Donald and Joe show, and th...
Cole Brown & Natalie Johnson's Book of Love
Lady Don't Take No - November 01, 2023 17:56 - 46 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes two guests this week: Cole Brown, an author, producer, and political commentator, and Natalie Johnson, a writer and illustrator who focuses on racial justice and gender equity. Brown and Johnson just published a collection of letters and illustrations on the subject of Bla...
Tony! Toni! Toné!
Lady Don't Take No - October 20, 2023 16:31 - 34 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes D’Wayne Wiggins, Raphael Saadiq, and Timothy Christian Riley, collectively known as Tony! Toni! Toné!, who have reunited for their first tour in 25 years. The group shares about their Oakland roots, and what led to their current tour which celebrates the 30th anniversary of...
Terrance Woodbury Is Getting It Done with Data
Lady Don't Take No - October 07, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Terrance Woodbury, co-founder & CEO of HIT Strategies, the leading millennial & minority-owned public opinion research firm in Washington, DC. Woodbury explains how data can be racist, and why collecting good data is so important for Black communities. Garza brings all t...
Paris Hatcher’s Black Feminist Future
Lady Don't Take No - September 18, 2023 19:08 - 1 hourAlicia Garza welcomes Paris Hatcher, the Founder of Black Feminist Future (BFF) – a national Black feminist organization that builds and amplifies the power of Black feminist leaders, organizations, and movements. Garza asks Hatcher how her long career in Black feminist organizing started, and t...
Ericka Huggins, The Heart of a Movement
Lady Don't Take No - August 26, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes back legendary human rights activist, Black Panther leader and former political prisoner, Ericka Huggins. Garza asks Huggins about the inspiration behind the book, Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party, which she created with photographer Stephen Shames. Garza...
Elaine Welteroth Doesn’t Need Your Permission
Lady Don't Take No - August 12, 2023 19:23 - 59 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes award winning journalist, producer and New York Times bestselling author, Elaine Welteroth. Garza asks Welteroth about being a fierce advocate for Black maternal health. Also, Welteroth talks about her experience being a judge on the Project Runway, and what it was like bei...
Art and Activism with Fredrika Newton
Lady Don't Take No - July 29, 2023 14:17 - 56 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Fredrika Newton, President and Co-founder of The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation. Garza and Newton talk about the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, misconceptions, and the comparisons drawn to the BLM movement. Newton also shares about her unexpected path in...
The Outright Badassery of Bozoma Saint John
Lady Don't Take No - July 16, 2023 13:38 - 53 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Bozoma Saint John, author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Urgent Life. Garza and Saint John talk about her astonishing journey which led her to be inducted in the Marketing Hall of Fame in 2022, and how she became Special Envoy to The President of Ghana. Alicia’s r...
I Spy the FBI with Trevor Aaronson
Lady Don't Take No - July 09, 2023 16:57 - 53 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Trevor Aaronson, investigative journalist and the creator, reporter, and host of the podcast Alphabet Boys. Aaronson lays out the case that the government secretly undermined the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, and he has the receipts to prove it! Alici...
Uphill and Onward with Jemele Hill
Lady Don't Take No - June 17, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutesAlicia 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. Al...
The Weirdest Connection Ever with James LaPorta
Lady Don't Take No - June 03, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes award-winning journalist and investigative reporter, James LaPorta. Garza and LaPorta met through extraordinary circumstances: They were both informed by the FBI that their names were on a list with others being targeted across the country for death. On this episode, Garza ...
Jidenna: From Classic Man to Expansive Man
Lady Don't Take No - May 20, 2023 14:22 - 57 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Grammy® nominated rapper and singer, Jidenna. Garza asks Jidenna about the journey to making ME YOU & GOD, and its themes of love, polyamory, masculinity and patriarchy. Alicia’s roundup focuses on Kamala Harris, Insurrectionists in law enforcement, and loving Lizzo’s tak...
Learning That Grief Is Love with Marisa Renee Lee
Lady Don't Take No - May 06, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes grief advocate and author of critically acclaimed book, Grief is Love, Marisa Renee Lee. Lee talks about how to understand grief, and shares what we can do to move through it. Alicia’s roundup focuses on Jerry Springer’s legacy, Kim Foxx not running for election, and Tuck...
Roxane Gay’s Level. Gotta Get On It.
Lady Don't Take No - April 22, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Roxane Gay, author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. Garza and Gay discuss the real real about Nikki Haley, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Also, Gay breaks ...
Building Power from the Ground Up with Dorian Warren
Lady Don't Take No - April 10, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes scholar and organizer Dorian Warren. Warren is the Co-President of Community of Change, and the Co-founder of the Economic Security Project. Warren breaks down what it's going to take to get our economy on track, and why it’s so important to fight for change on a local leve...
Your Sacred Right with Wanda Mosley
Lady Don't Take No - March 19, 2023 10:00 - 54 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Wanda Mosley, the National Field Director at Black Voters Matter, an organization that works primarily in rural communities to gain electoral wins to build Black political power. Garza and Mosley talk about her work with BVM, and what Black voters are looking for from this ...
Some Grown Folks Conversation with Farai Chideya
Lady Don't Take No - February 10, 2023 18:33 - 46 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes author Farai Chideya, the creator, producer and host of the nationally syndicated public radio show, Our Body Politic. Garza asks Chideya about her roots in improv comedy, and how that influenced her career as a journalist. Garza’s weekly roundup focuses on the Grammys snu...
Melina Abdullah. A Rebel with a Cause
Lady Don't Take No - February 05, 2023 14:46 - 58 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Melina Abdullah, Professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA, and co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, and the Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots. Garza and Abdullah talk about the roots of BLM, how it moves forward, and people in the movement who are m...
Changing the Game with Maurice Mitchell
Lady Don't Take No - January 27, 2023 17:44 - 55 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes back the nationally-recognized political strategist, Maurice Mitchell. Mitchell is the National Director of the Working Families Party, a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses. Garza and Mitchell take a deep dive into his game changing essay, Building Resili...
Huddling with Brooke Baldwin
Lady Don't Take No - January 21, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Brooke Baldwin, the best selling author of Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power. Baldwin talks about what inspired her to write Huddle, and how she became a CNN anchor, and ultimately what changed that prompted her to start a new chapter. Plus, all the news you ...
Brandi Collins-Dexter’s Wake-up Call for Democracy
Lady Don't Take No - December 06, 2022 19:30 - 39 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Brandi Collins-Dexter, author of the critically acclaimed book, Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future. Garza asks Collins-Dexter about the dissatisfaction from Black voters with the Democratic Party, Black Skinheads, and what exactly is going on ...
The Pinky Cole Experience
Lady Don't Take No - November 18, 2022 18:47 - 37 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Pinky Cole, CEO of Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan restaurants, and author of the critically acclaimed, Eat Plants, B*tch. Cole shares about her entrepreneurial journey, learning from her early projects in hospitality, to her current career as a philanthropist. Plus, a deep dive...
Midterms '22: All-Star Analysis
Lady Don't Take No - November 17, 2022 23:44 - 49 minutesAlicia Garza shares reactions from her all-star roster of friends about the 2022 midterm election. Guests include Tiffany Cross, Melissa Harris-Perry, Laphonza Butler, Angela Rye, Joy Reid, Jemele Hill, Nse Ufot, and Maurice Mitchell. Plus, Garza’s own detailed analysis of what went down, and, a...
Esperanza K. Tervalon Puts the East in Beast
Lady Don't Take No - November 03, 2022 16:23 - 53 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes Esperanza K. Tervalon, Founder and CEO of Dancing Hearts Consulting. Garza asks Tervalon about her journey to being the first woman of color to lead a 501c3, 501c4 & PAC collaborative civic engagement formation focused on mobilizing progressive voters of color in the United...
Laphonza Butler’s List
Lady Don't Take No - October 27, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutesThis live episode of Lady Don’t Take No finds Alicia Garza sitting down with Laphonza Butler, the President of Emily’s List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics. This conversation took place on October 13th, 2022 as part of the Lesbians Who Tech San Francisco Summit. Garza and Bu...
Live with Madame Mayor London Breed
Lady Don't Take No - October 20, 2022 10:00 - 1 hourThis live Lady Don’t Take No finds Alicia Garza sitting down with the Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, in the majestic Castro Theater at the Lesbians Who Tech San Francisco Summit. Garza asks Breed to break down what’s happening with policing in SF, the Dream Keepers Initiative, and the wor...
It’s Time To Adjust Your Set with Rashad Robinson
Lady Don't Take No - October 13, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes back Rashad Robinson, the President of Color Of Change, a racial justice organization with more than 7 million members who demonstrate the power of Black communities every single day. Robinson discusses his involvement in the new @netflix series #Monster. Garza and Robinso...
Tik Tok, She Don’t Stop: A.B. Burns-Tucker
Lady Don't Take No - October 06, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes law student, activist and influencer, A.B. Burns-Tucker. Burns-Tucker shares about how she started on her journey of learning the language of the law, and how that led to her prominence on Tik Tok under the handle @iamlegallyhype. Plus, Garza’s weekly roundup which focuses ...
The East Cleveland In Yvette Nicole Brown
Lady Don't Take No - September 29, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutesAlicia Garza welcomes the Emmy-nominated actress, writer, and producer, Yvette Nicole Brown. Brown talks about twitter trolls, making her way back to East Cleveland, and how caregiving has changed her life. Plus, Garza’s weekly roundup of all the news you can use. And, a brand new Lady’s Love No...
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