An Afro State of Mind: Coco Guaff, Hair Texture, & Liberation

Lurie Breaks It Down

Women's Empowerment Network

Politics, History, Culture, News, Society & Culture

5.0 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Lurie breaks down the backlash against tennis star Coco Gauff's natural hair in a Miu Miu campaign, connecting it to deeper issues of internalized white beauty standards in the Black community. Through personal stories and historical context, she unpacks how these standards affect Black identity and self-worth. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.
0:05.0	She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.
0:11.7	She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.
0:17.3	She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough
0:22.5	To break these change we're in
0:24.2	They keep us in this painful condition
0:26.9	She gave us truth and division
0:29.5	That's why we listen
0:31.3	She break it down, down, down, down, down
0:34.6	Down, down
0:35.6	She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.
0:41.7	Don't we break it down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
0:46.1	We got a lot to impact today.
0:47.8	We're going to have an Afro state of mind conversation.
0:50.0	Many of you, not many, some, a person out there.
0:53.5	I don't know how many of you may recall that I used to blog a lot and I used to do a lot of natural hair videos under the name Afro State of Mind. This was largely coming out of when I was in corporate law, so having a different name to have all these conversations about blackness was very, very important at that time. And so we're going to have an Afro
1:11.3	state of mind conversation today. We're going to get into that in just a little bit. But first,
1:14.2	I want to start by talking a little bit about intersectionality, international intersectionality.
1:18.3	Now, what has been very interesting to me, you all know that we have been playing a number of
1:22.6	the Iranian Lego videos as news clips because I believe that the Iranians are doing Lego videos because
1:28.7	they are as much aware as we are here on this show that Americans have an average reading
1:32.9	level of about fifth grade, between fifth and sixth grade. And I'm not talking about a fifth
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