In a powerful exploration of recent racial history, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter examines the moment we're in, how we got here, and how together we can build movements to create a just and equal world.
Alicia Garza is an innovator, strategist and organizer. She is the Principal at the Black Futures Lab, co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, the Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the US National Domestic Workers Association, co-founder of Supermajority and host of the podcast Lady Don't Take No.
In a year where a long overdue reckoning with racism is once again
in the spotlight, Garza's call to action to create a sustainable
movement bigger than hashtags and social media followings is
urgent a critically necessary * TIME *
"Black lives matter" - Alicia Garza's love letter read around the
world. The Purpose of Power is another love letter that
should be read around the world. * IBRAM X. KENDI,
bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist *
Alicia Garza has articulated the aspiration of generations of Black
people to be valued, protected, respected and free. This
beautiful, important and timely memoir is insightful,
compelling and necessary in this critical moment of
reckoning with our history * BRYAN STEVENSON, author of New York
Times bestseller Just Mercy *
'The Purpose of Power is a must read... Anyone interested in
turning the page of our contemptible past toward a brighter future
should put this book on their reading list' * Congresswoman
Barbara Lee *
A must-read book * STYLIST *
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