Ghana’s Resolution, Global Reparations, & War Updates

Lurie Breaks It Down

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5.0 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Lurie Daniel Favors shares her firsthand experience witnessing Ghana's historic achievement at the United Nations, where a resolution declaring the trafficking and enslavement of Africans as the gravest crime against humanity passed with overwhelming support. She breaks down the resolution's 16 points, addressing misconceptions about reparatory justice frameworks, and explains why the US, Israel, and Argentina voted against it. The episode also covers current events including America's military challenges in the Middle East and TSA funding issues tied to Project 2025. 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 down down we've got a lot to get to
0:47.1	today as I already told the urban view audience hey YouTube welcome welcome welcome welcome as I
0:50.7	already told the urban view audience I'm in a very good mood today because I've been able to bear witness to something historic, something dynamic, something that it's kind of like the Crown Act, but on an international scale.
1:02.2	And I say it because when I wrote my book, Afro State of Mind, Memories of a Nappy Heated Black Girl, in 2013, I put it out.
1:09.2	And I remember feeling like, we ain't never going to get like, this, just this thing when it comes to natural hair and in our ability to wear our hair as an extension of who we are without being penalized for it or racially discriminated against it. I didn't see a real legal pathway forward. I just thought that we were going to have to just say, F, y'all, we're going to do what we got to do on our own. And then we got the Crown Act. Not that the Crown Act is perfect, but shout out to Adjo Osmoa, attorney Wendy L. Green, and all the other amazing dynamic people who have come together to put the Crown Act together because it has given us a legal framework, a legal framework that allows us to have a more sure footing for how we defend our rights to be able to wear our hair as the
1:45.9	good Lord or divine evolution or I guess divine and evolution don't necessarily go together. Evolution or
1:50.9	divinity or just the universe being dope and amazing and knowing that natural kinky coily hair that
1:54.9	reaches up to the sun is the best kind to have. I mean, I don't make the rules. But we now have a
1:58.8	legal framework. And I was surprised by that because I didn't think it was actually going to work.
2:04.1	I'm a bit of a pessimist when it comes to our ability to move things legally.
2:07.2	It's probably because I'm an attorney and I'm kind of pessimistic on those things.
2:11.1	Very optimistic on others.
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