PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS is an artist, organizer and freedom fighter from Los Angeles. A co-founder of Black Lives Matter, she is also a performance artist, Fulbright scholar, popular public speaker and an NAACP History Maker.
ASHA BANDELE, author of the best-selling and award-winning memoir The Prisoner’s Wife and four other works, has been honored for her work in journalism, fiction, poetry and activism. A mother and a former senior editor at Essence magazine, Asha serves as a senior director at the Drug Policy Alliance.
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When They Call You a Terrorist
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors on her path to activism and being criminalized at age 12.
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha bandele
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