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Alicia Garza

Alicia Garza, American activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter (link) by Citizen University is licensed CC BY 3.0 (link)
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Alicia Garza is a California-based activist and a co-founder of the #BlackLivesMatter online movement and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. 22

Garza reportedly has the final six lines of June Jordan’s “Poem About My Rights” tattooed on her chest:

“I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name. My name is my own my own my own, and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this, but I can tell you that from now on my resistance, my simple and daily and nightly self-determination, may very well cost you your life.”31

References

  1. Black Lives Matter. Our Co-Founders. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://blacklivesmatter.com/our-co-founders/
  2. Hayes, Chris, host, “Remembering why Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza: podcast and transcript,” Why Is This Happening? (podcast), NBC News, July 11, 2019. Accesed August 5, 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/remembering-why-black-lives-matter-alicia-garza-podcast-transcript-ncna1013901
  3. Day, Elizabeth, “#BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement,” The Guardian, July 19, 2015. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/19/blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-rights-movement
  4. Steinbuch, Yaron, “Black Lives Matter co-founder describes herself as ‘trained Marxist’,” New York Post, June 25, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/
  5. McCammond, Alexi, “Black activist group gives its first presidential endorsement to Elizabeth Warren,” Axios, February 20, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.axios.com/2020-election-elizabeth-warren-black-future-action-fund-babadf81-92fa-4c5d-b977-f5d5c3ad9861.html
  6. Wong, Julia Carrie, “The Bay Area Roots of Black Lives Matter,” SF Weekly, November 11, 2015. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-bay-area-roots-of-black-lives-matter/
  7. Fusek, Maggie, “U.S. News Best High Schools 2019: Redwood High Makes List,” Patch Media, April 20, 2019. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://patch.com/california/larkspurcortemadera/u-s-news-best-high-schools-2019-redwood-high-makes-list
  8. Hayes, Chris, host, “Remembering why Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza,” podcast and transcript,” Why Is This Happening? (podcast), NBC News, July 11, 2019. Accessed August 5, 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/remembering-why-black-lives-matter-alicia-garza-podcast-transcript-ncna1013901
  9. SF Weekly Staff. “The Bay Area Roots of Black Lives Matter.” SF Weekly. November 11, 2015. Available at: https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/the-bay-area-roots-of-black-lives-matter/article_59c2bc82-80c4-5b2b-9600-28c62c8b29fb.html
  10. Cobb, Jelani, “The Matter of Black Lives,” The New Yorker, March 7, 2016. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/where-is-black-lives-matter-headed
  11. Darden, Jenee, “What it Means to Rise,” UC San Diego, Tritonmag.com, March 20, 2019. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://tritonmag.com/what-it-means-to-rise/
  12. Fessler, Leah, “How the leader of Black Lives Matter defines ‘power’,” Quartz, September 16, 2018. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://qz.com/1391762/black-lives-matter-co-founder-alicia-garzas-definition-of-power/
  13. Alavarez, Lizette, “In Zimmerman Case, Self-Defense Was Hard to Topple,” The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/us/in-zimmerman-case-self-defense-was-hard-to-topple.html
  14. Baptiste, Nathalie, “Origins of a Movement,” The Nation, Februrary 9, 2017. Accesed August 5, 2020. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/origins-of-a-movement/
  15. Freelon, Deen, Mcilwain, Charlton D., and Clark, Meredith D., “Beyond the Hashtags,” The Center for Media and Social Impact, February 2016. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://cmsimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/beyond_the_hashtags_2016.pdf
  16. Darren Sands. “What Happened to Black Lives Matter?” BuzzFeed News. June 21, 2017. Available at: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/darrensands/what-happened-to-black-lives-matter
  17. Thousand Currents, Black Lives Matter. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://thousandcurrents.org/black-lives-matter/
  18. Black Lives Matter, Urgent: Fund the Movement, ActBlue Charities. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019
  19. Black Lives Matter. What We Believe. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
  20. Smith, Heather, “Meet the BART-stopping woman behind ‘Black Lives Matter’,” Grist Magazine, December 4, 2014. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://grist.org/politics/stopping-a-bart-train-in-michael-browns-name/
  21. Scott Walter. “Radical Lives Matter.” Capital Research Center. November 18, 2020. Available at: https://capitalresearch.org/article/radical-lives-matter/
  22. Goldberg, Susan, “From the archives: Black Lives Matter co-founder reflects on a life of activism,” National Geographic, July 8, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/07/archival-black-lives-matter-co-founder-reflects-life-activism/#close
  23. Black to the Future Action Fund, Endorsements. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://black2thefuture.org/endorsements/
  24. Cachero, Paulina, “Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza Says Joe Biden Is ‘Far Away’ From Changes Democratic Voters Want,” TIME USA, July 16, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://time.com/5867282/alicia-garza-black-lives-matter-biden/
  25. Garofoli, Joe, “Black Lives Matter co-creator: Biden must choose a Black woman for VP,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 3, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Black-Lives-Matter-co-creator-Biden-must-choose-15450363.php
  26. Black Futures Lab. Support Black Futures Lab. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://cpasf.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=45
  27. Black Futures Lab, Learn More, Accessed August 5, 2020. https://blackfutureslab.org/the-411-on-the-bfl/
  28. Garza, Alicia, “Black to the Future Action Fund,” Facebook, July 2, 2018. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/ChasingGarza/posts/black-to-the-future-action-fund-the-c4-arm-of-the-black-futures-lab-is-making-an/2138131259791871/
  29. Salam, Maya, “A ‘Women’s New Deal’,” The New York Times, April 30, 2019. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/us/cecile-richards-supermajority.html
  30. National Domestic Workers Alliance. Spokespersons. Accessed August 5, 2020. https://domesticworkers.org/spokespersons
  31. “Leadership and Program Staff.” The JPB Foundation, Accessed November 14, 2024. https://www.jpbfoundation.org/leadership/
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