Alicia Garza, along with two others, co-founded Black Lives Matter after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. The verdict, Garza said, sent a message that “our lives don’t matter.” In a conversation with David Remnick, Garza discusses the aspirations of Black Lives Matter beyond the issue of police violence, and her unusual background as a black Jew from Marin County, California. Garza admits that she is disappointed in Hillary Clinton’s treatment of Black Lives Matter activists, and questions Clinton’s changing stance on mass incarceration. Garza says that if Clinton is nominated, she will take her vote elsewhere.
Produced by Steven Valentino.