amy: i want to turn to alicia garza.he is away so we were not able to bring her on with you today, cofounder of black lives matter. in 2017, she spoke on democracy now! about how women of color must be included in political organizingng, especially against sexual assault and harassment. >> women of color, immigrant women, black womomen who are lolow-wage workers are extremely vulnerable to this kind of abuse and violence. frankly, because of the lack of protections ththat existst comer to be honest, the mamarginalization ththese communities already experience in our society and our economy and in our democracy, there really is not only not coconversation about their prevalence in which this is happening to women of color anad immigrant women in the service industry, but there is also not a lot of conversation about what do the solutions look like outside of criminalizing the perpetrators or the survivors themselves. that is very important. and that is black lives matter co-founder alicia garza, who is one of the cofounde

people and has a variety of white people who are getting involved from george gayle there with alicia garzaget sound john brown gun club, liberal progressive white people with guns showing up when the alt-right show up, neo-nazi show up, they show up with their guns. it's a wide range of things you can do. >> what did you personally learn from this, from this mission and, you know, from what has fueled this mission in so many people? >> you know what i learned is that people in communities feel like they cannot depend on political leaders or the government to save us from ou s ourselves at this point. we talked to duke and he said he felt the need to stand up and use his second amendment rights to defend people in his neighborhoods because he was seeing his neighborhoods with like anti-semitic things and racist things all around and nobody was doing anything. so the theme of this season united shades, it's on us. it's on us to do it because our elected officials aren't doing it. >> and did any of these folks, you know, express to you what their encountering? are they met with dangers? are t

alicia garza and the black census project just released their numbers this morning. the report is on the "new york times" site, and you can see the black people of the united states are somewhere between 30 and 50,000 that they surveyed. there is a big trust gap between black americans and the news. that says to me that we need to think about doing this differently. if there were no other time to think about the ways we can reshape these norms and values, that time is now. the other problem there that you mentioned is about actually the people themselves, right, and who goes into the newsroom and how these jobs are being formed. i now run the american society of news editors annual newsroom diversity survey, and it takes into account the demographics of newsrooms across the country. one of the big problems that we had was that newsrooms are not defined the way they used to be. there used to be a brick and mortar newsroom where people showed up every single day, and while that's still the case in a number of places, the gray lady is still standing, the "washington pos

. >>> joining us now, co-founder of black lives matter and the head of black futures lab, alicia garzas 2019 black census project, which is the largest survey of the black community in the united states since reconstruction. "new york times" column entitled "dear candidates, here is what black people want," in which she argues this, we long for the same things as everyone else, yet few campaigns treat us as if our experiences matter. reading from the piece, quote, candidates and their campaigns are comfortable talking at black people but few talk with us. it limits their ability to influence policies. it is a bad strategy at a time when black people, black women in particular, form the base of the democratic party. are its most loyal voters and mobilize others to go to the polls. campaigns that fail to under how structural racism affects lives are boomed. they'll always miss the mark when it comes to black voters. if candidates address the needs and concerns of black communities, it'll return in dividends for all americans. great to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> let's be s