Alicia Garza

Garza is a political strategist, principal of Black Futures Lab and Black to the Future Action Fund, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

Recent Articles

What Democrats Must Do for Black Voters

Black communities have a long history of fighting to make America real. Daring to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to secure our right to vote, taking to the streets to defend our...

By Alicia Garza

We Asked 30,000 Black Americans What They Need to Survive. Here’s What They Said

The coronavirus has laid bare the disparities that have been ravaging Black communities for decades. Sure, we’re all in this together, but we’re not all being affected in the same way—nor have we ever been....

By Alicia Garza

Obama Should Help the People Who His Presidency Failed

Now that he's left office, he will be freed of the restrictions of politics

By Alicia Garza

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: Obama Overlooked Black Women

The president’s State of the Union address failed to address our issues

By Alicia Garza
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