From BLM activist to Congress: Rep. Cori Bush

In 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).