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 host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. All right, before we get into today's topic, you may be wondering, wow, it's Tuesday, and I'm hearing Lurie on Lurie breaks it down and not on her Sirius XM radio show. You are correct. Today is Tuesday. And the reason you're hearing this podcast episode today is kind of an exciting one. So up until now, when we launched the podcast in March, the idea was that we would post it three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We played with a couple of different times. First, it was in the morning, then it was in the afternoon.

I think now we're somewhere at around 2 o'clock as our norm for release times. But you all have

really responded well to the podcast so well, in fact, that we've already exceeded some of our

initial metrics, and I'm pretty darn happy about that, to be perfectly honest. But as a result of

you appreciating what we do here

on the Reeves It Down, we're growing. And by growing, I mean, we are now going to be a five day a week

podcast. I'm very excited about this because it means that every day we'll be able to bring you

more information about what's happening in our world, which is really kind of dope because often

what would happen is on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I would squeeze in as much information into this podcast as I possibly could.

But then something major would happen on a Tuesday and a Thursday, and I'd be like, darn it, nobody who is outside of my serious sex-em community is going to be able to get access to the information in the way that I would frame it because we're not talking to them on Tuesday and Thursday.

Well, friends, that day is over. Those days are over and now you will be able to get your latest edition of news and information that we think is important for you to know.

On Leary breaks it down every Monday through Friday. I'm pretty excited about it. And so with that, let's get into today's conversation.

Years ago, when I left

corporate law, I went into private practice as an attorney, literally put up my shingle, which for

you non-lawyers out there means that I was going to be taking clients on my own. I was setting up

my own law firm instead of being paid more money than Black Jesus to work for white corporate law firms of the

white shoe variety. That's not a phrase I made up. They literally called them white shoe law firms,

meaning they're pretty hoity-to-oity. And I'd started my legal career in those spaces, but I

left corporate law after a federal clerkship and decided that it was going to be time for me to return to what I had already went to law school to do in the first place, which is to use the law to figure out how to make my community's lives better. Now, while I was in corporate law, I was also doing that work, but surrepetitiously, sort of, you know, after hours, if you will, working on my nonprofit and the community organizing I was doing outside of the law firm

hoity tooty white shoe hours and doing the best I could to juggle. Well, when I went into private

practice, I no longer had to juggle the demands of a very corporate environment with the actual

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