‘Show the people that you’re fighting for them’: Rep. Cori Bush, from activist to Congress
Bush lived many lives before running for Congress. She tells Aarti Shahani how she transformed her activism into political power.
By Aarti Shahani
‘Show the people that you’re fighting for them’: Rep. Cori Bush, from activist to Congress
Bush lived many lives before running for Congress. She tells Aarti Shahani how she transformed her activism into political power.
By Aarti ShahaniIn this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a former Black Lives Matter activist who lost two elections before finally winning Missouri’s 1st congressional seat in 2020.
Rep. Bush tells Shahani about her early exposure to politics (12:36), the adversities she endured in her early life — including eviction, homelessness and rape (19:12), the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson that pushed her to seek public office (4:00), and why she didn’t quit after two lopsided electoral defeats (32:45).