Aja Monet and phillip agnew: A love story about the power of art as organizing

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Aja Monet: Our story begins like all great, young love stories. Phillip Agnew: She slid in my DMs ...

AM: He liked about 50 of my photos, back-to-back, in the middle of the night --

PA: What I saw was an artist committed to truth and justice -- and she's beautiful, but I digress.

AM: Our story actually begins across many worlds, over maqluba and red wine in Palestine.

But how did we get there? PA: Well, I was born in Chicago,

the son of a preacher and a teacher. My ears first rung with church songs sung by my mother on Saturday mornings.

My father's South Side sermons summoned me. My first words were more notes than quotes.

It was music that molded me. Later on, it was Florida A&M University that first introduced me to organizing.

In 2012, a young black male named Trayvon Martin was murdered, and it changed my life and millions of others'.

We were a ragtag group of college kids and not-quite adults who had decided enough was enough.

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