Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we're in

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down

Down, down

She break it down, down, down, down she break it down down down down down down down down down down

joining me right now is somebody with whom I always have the most insightful

conversations and even though I'd be trying to have Friday be like a Kiki time y'all know know my Kiki meter is kind of, I don't really have a Kiki meter. A Kiki, but you know, I don't really be Kiki in the way I would like to. And instead I end up having these dynamic, amazing, soul-stirring conversations with people like Ebony Janice, the founder and CEO of the Free People Project and the Ebony-Genice Project. She has a bachelor's in cultural anthropology and political science and a master's of art in social change with a concentration and spiritual leadership, womenist theology, and racial justice. The core and center of her work is the professional and personal liberation of black women and femme. She is a bestselling author of all the things. And she is here with us today.

Happy New Year. Happy Capricorn season as a Capricorn. Oh, my grandmother was a Capricorn. It is a Capricorn. Well, she's now an ancestor. But when she was on this planet, she was a Capricorn. And she very much embodied all the Capricorn energy. Maybe that's why I like you. But also because, you know, you'd be making sense.

So we've just come through a holiday season. And like so many holiday seasons, we are sometimes asked to pick and choose. And I feel like this really comes to bear when it comes to people from

our tradition. And by that, I mean black people people when we are talking about Christmas versus

Kwanza as opposed to Christmas and Kwanza it feels like and even though throughout the

entirety of the Kwanza season I'm always talking about how my family celebrates both

we have no issues with this because one is a religious holiday the other is cultural

and I've noticed that throughout my life however i've been pretty

comfortable picking up tools from different religious practices i've been exposed to my audience

knows that i was born and raised in the black christian church um but i also i'd be chanting

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