Asha Bandele
Patrisse Khan-Cullors is an artist, organizer, and freedom fighter from Los Angeles, CA. 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 bestselling memoir, The Prisoner’s Wife, has been honoured 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.
Do the work: an anti-racist reading list
“What will happen after this news cycle is over and social media posts about diversity die down? Layla F Saad chooses books to fortify a long-term struggle.”
Layla F Saad
Guardian
When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
“A revealing scene from her memoir narrates the time Khan-Cullors was invited to dinner at a white classmate’s house. She admires how the family sits down to eat together, discussing their aspirations – only to learn that the father, who is so gently encouraging, is the slumlord trying to evict her family from their home.”
Patrisse Khan-Cullors interviewed on the fifth anniversary of Black Lives Matter.
Dazed
