Lyberti Bradley

Interviewee/ Narrator

Lyberti Bradley

Lyberti Bradley

Interviewer

Selena Piercy

Date

October 30, 2023

Location of the Interview

Sewanee, TN

Length

20 minutes, 25 seconds

Abstract

Lyberti Bradley was born in January 2002 in Andalusia, Alabama. She moved around all over the Southeastern United States growing up and now lives in a small town close to Mobile, Alabama. The interview started with a short biography of Lyberti’s life, in which she walked through her experiences growing up in Atlanta compared to living in Alabama. She mentioned how she grew up with a lot of great role models who are successful Black women, especially in her family. After more introductory questions, Ms. Bradley answered questions about how the Black Lives Matter movement has been present in her life.
While she gets most of her news on current events through social media platforms like TikTok, she used to receive the news through networks like CNN and FOX on television. At the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was talked about in her family, as the people in her family are Black, so the start of this movement was extremely close to their hearts. She had witnessed police officers harassing Black people in her community, so she has first-hand accounts of the injustices committed against the Black community. Additionally, Lyberti mentioned that in 2020 when BLM gained a lot more attention on a national level and ignited protests against police brutality all over the country, she was in Atlanta with her mother who was pregnant at the time. She witnessed protests but did not participate in the Atlanta protests because she wanted to be with her mother. Her current place of residence in Alabama is a predominantly white, rural town. A protest in collaboration with the local police department occurred, and protestors marched through a primarily Black neighborhood in town. Ms. Bradley believes that this protest was performative and did not result in any productive social change. Her hope for BLM is that something will happen to motivate social change for more equitable treatment of Black people in America.