Alicia Garza Says No to Hillary

After a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, Alicia Garza said it sent a message that “our lives don’t matter.” Garza and two others co-founded Black Lives Matter, a very contemporary civil-rights movement built on the power of social networks to shape the national conversation. In a discussion with David Remnick, Garza discusses the aspirations of Black Lives Matter beyond the issue of police violence, and her own unusual upbringing 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

Originally aired January 15, 2016