Live From The HIBT Summit: Rashad Robinson

Hey everybody, welcome to another special edition of How I Built This. I'm Guy Raz. We're releasing the final main stage interview from our How I Built This Summit, which happened virtually back in May. And our final episode is from my conversation with Rashad Robinson about making a meaningful impact in the world. Rashad is an activist and the president of Color of Change, the nation's largest online racial justice organization. Over the past decades, Rashad has taken on everything from criminal justice reform to improved media representation for marginalized communities.

Tracking back to his childhood, Rashad has pushed hard for racial justice and equal rights in all aspects of life. Rashad joined us on the virtual stage during Color of Change' Week of Action, a series of events created to honor the one year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. Rashad talked about why they didn't want to focus only on pain and tragedy around the anniversary, but to center it on something different. Black joy. Black joy is not the absence of pain, but the presence of aspiration. Not just what we are fighting against, but what we are fighting for. And in so many of the ways in which we try to bring people together. to actually accomplish big things. You know, we center black joy, we center sort of relational organizing.

I fundamentally believe that Лідерші і активізм із на. being a spokesperson for people who are not heard, but about building the vehicles and the infrastructure so that people can be heard for themselves. And so when we Bring people together in this spirit of black joy. I think it's incredibly

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