Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. So this is one of those conversations that I think is really important because it's a

level set, right? A lot of us learned about the name Asada Shakur. Some of us for the very

first time, just a couple of weeks ago when we learned of her transition to the ancestral realm.

Others of us were shaken to the core by the news of her transition because she has featured so prominently in our imaginations, even if we never actually knew her or got to meet her. We often felt like we did because of her writings and how much of an impact her thoughts had on our lives and how much impact her story had on our lives. And I said had, but I really should say has

because she continues to feature so prominently

for so many of us.

Joining me right now is somebody who knows intimately

the story of Asada Shakur

and doing the work of ensuring that her message was being shared.

And so I am so grateful that we are joined today

by Monifa Bandelli, who is a sister friend. I have known for a very

long time. I have had the pleasure of being in spaces that she has organized. I have had an

opportunity to sit and break bread with her and her husband. And she and her husband are someone

that me and my husband look to as a good model for what it looks like to raise good

black kids in a time of very much challenge and difficulty. And she's joining us here today

because she has some intimate knowledge about the topic of Asada Shakur, some intimate knowledge

of the woman as to who Asada Shakur was. And Monifa, I'm just grateful that you were able to

be with us today to help us to understand who was Asada Shakur, who And Monifa, I'm just grateful that you were able to be with us today to help us

to understand who was Asada Shakur, who is she in terms of her positioning in our society and our

cultural understanding and who should we be thinking about when we think about how we can use her

message to help build for the future. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. So this is

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